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==Personal honors== {{MLBBioRet |Image = CardsRetired9.PNG |Name = Enos Slaughter |Number = 9 |Team = St. Louis Cardinals |Year = 1996 |}} Slaughter was elected to the [[Baseball Hall of Fame]] in {{Baseball year|1985}}.<ref name="baseballhall.org"/> His jersey number 9 was retired by the Cardinals on September 6, 1996. The Cardinals dedicated a statue depicting his famous Mad Dash in 1999.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/history/retired_numbers.jsp|title=Cardinals Retired Numbers|website=St. Louis Cardinals|access-date=1 August 2018|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612135923/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/history/retired_numbers.jsp|url-status=dead}}</ref> Slaughter was a fixture at statue dedications at [[Busch Stadium II]] for other Cardinal Hall of Famers during the last years of his life. In 2013, the [[Bob Feller Act of Valor Award]] honored Slaughter as one of 37 Baseball Hall of Fame members for his service in the United States Army Air Force during World War II.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|title=WWII HOF Players β Act of Valor Award|access-date=2021-08-11|archive-date=2021-10-08|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211008204152/https://actofvaloraward.org/hof-players/|url-status=dead}}</ref> In January, 2014, the Cardinals announced Slaughter among 22 former players and personnel to be inducted into the [[St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum]] for the inaugural class of [[2014 St. Louis Cardinals season|2014]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Cardinals Press Release |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140118&content_id=66822534&vkey=pr_stl&c_id=stl |title=Cardinals establish Hall of Fame & detail induction process |website=Stlouis.cardinals|date=January 18, 2014 |access-date=January 29, 2014 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126165854/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140118&content_id=66822534&vkey=pr_stl&c_id=stl |archive-date=January 26, 2014 }}</ref>
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