[1] Ken, 1964 National League Most Valuable Player, an 11-time Major League Baseball All-Star and five-time Gold Glove recipient, had a 15-year big-league career with the Cardinals, New York Mets, Chicago White Sox and Los Angeles Dodgers; Clete won only one Gold Glove because of the presence of Brooks Robinson,[2] but played all or parts of 16 MLB seasons for the Athletics, New York Yankees and Atlanta Braves.

[3] In his major-league career, encompassing all or part of five seasons, Boyer posted a 20–23 won–lost record with 198 strikeouts and a 4.73 earned run average in 3952⁄3 innings pitched, including 13 complete games, three shutouts, and two saves.

Boyer also played for the Duluth Dukes, a Cardinals minor league team, in 1947.

After that season, he was promoted to the Cardinals' Double-A club, the Houston Buffaloes, for whom he played in 1948.

He spent two brief terms as pitching coach of the Bombers in 1975 and 1977, and held the same post on the staff of Bobby Cox during Cox's first term (1978–1981) as manager of the Atlanta Braves, then served under Dick Howser as mound tutor of the 1982–1983 Kansas City Royals.