[T]he day after the Los Angeles Dodgers used the 794th and final pick to take Don Stackpole, a (what else?) catcher from Wildomar, Calif., Angelo Poffo forced his son into the car and drove 283 miles to St. Louis, where the Cardinals were holding a two-day open-call tryout camp. In his first at-bat during hitting drills, Randy laced a line drive into the right-center gap that bounced over the wall for a ground-rule double. When the session ended, he was brought into the executive offices and offered a $500-per-month contract and an invitation to join the organization’s rookie league club in Tampa. Of the approximately 300 players in attendance, he was the only one to catch the franchise’s eye. “No bonus whatsoever,” says Lanny. “Randy signed the same day as Keith Hernandez. He was elated. It wasn’t about the money. It was so much bigger than that.”