[2] Busch became a prominent sportsman as owner of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise in Major League Baseball from 1953 until his death.

[4] After his older brother Adolphus Busch III died in 1946, August A. Jr. succeeded him as president and CEO.

In prior months, he had become increasingly difficult to work with due to his grief over the loss of his youngest daughter at the end of 1974.

He was allowed to remain president of the Cardinals and use the company perks associated with that job only if he represented the move as voluntary on his part.

Divisions in the Busch family resulting from the coup persisted for decades and played a part in InBev's 2008 takeover of the company.

[4] In truth, according to Anheuser-Busch biographer William Knoedelseder, Saigh's first preference had been to sell to local buyers.

[7] As chairman, president or CEO of the Cardinals from the time the club was purchased by the brewery in 1953 until his death, Busch oversaw a team that won six National League pennants (1964, 1967, 1968, 1982, 1985, and 1987) and three World Series (1964, 1967 and 1982).

[4] His youngest child, by Gertrude Buholzer, daughter Christina Martina Busch, died at the age of eight in a car accident while on her way home from school in December 1974.

[10] Seven years later in 1996, Anheuser-Busch sold the Cardinals to a group of investors led by William DeWitt, Jr.