For the Cardinals , the changeover was particularly significant because the St. Louis teams of the mid - and late 1980 's -- teams that featured Vince Coleman and Willie McGee and Ozzie Smith -- had been seen as the epitome of artificial-turf baseball , using speed to take advantage of the quick surface and the ball 's high bounces .
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Vince Coleman
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