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  • #174265
    bccran
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    The end of an era. A big tip of the cap to one of the finest members of the Cardinals family. Well done, Mike.

    #174285
    Euro Dandy
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    I enjoyed listening to Shannon for years until televised baseball took over.

    #174300
    Cardinals27
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    I have always loved Mike Shannon, his story’s, his country wit, his mispronunciations of names (likely because of a few Budweisers). He was as much a crazy, fun uncle, as Jack Buck was my 2nd father. I really will miss him, and hope the Cards can find a good color man to back up Rooney.

    #174301
    kscardfan
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    Cardinal baseball on the radio has always included Harry, Jack, or Mike for me. End of a great era. Mike was just as much of a radio icon as the other two. I just wish you folks in St Louis could see this moon.

    #174304
    Brian Walton
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    Ricky Horton will be Shannon’s replacement.

    #174305
    1982 willie
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    Yea mike is/was great. Though listening to the last game, I think it is time..Horton knows his stuff but I just don’t see him as announcer material. Where is dizzy dean when you need him.

    #174315
    bicyclemike
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    I recall as a kid back in the mid-60s and my dad telling me that Harry Caray said this kid Shannon has the best outfield arm we had seen in a long time. That was when I first started paying attention to Mike Shannon.

    He and Lou Brock stabilized the Cardinal outfield in mi-season, 1964, and went on to win the World Series after being 40-41 at the All-Star break.

    He later took one for the team and converted to third base to make room for the legendary Roger Maris in the Cardinal outfield. All those teams did was win a couple of pennants and a World Series.

    A kidney ailment ended Mike’s career, and a year later he wound up in the broadcast booth with Jack Buck. Hurray was fired a couple of years earlier in one of Gussie’s many emotional tirades.

    Mike was kind of rough early on in his second career, but over time gained a nice rapport with Jack Buck and they were an entertaining team. I am sure Jack worked a lot with Mike like he did with Bill White when Bill’s baseball career was winding down.

    Later on the “Live at Shannon’s” programs after Friday home games were classics. It was like sitting in with former or current players and coaches at a bar and listening to their conversation.

    What a great life! Hopefully Mike can enjoy time as a fan, while he lives as a legend.

    #174318
    bccran
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    Probably the greatest all around male athlete ever to come out St. Louis.

    #174319
    blingboy
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    Mike has been a part of baseball for me as long as I can remember. I tuned in on the radio a couple times early in the season but couldn’t do it any more. It was the same when Jack Buck came back for his last stint after being so sick. Its better to just have the good memories.

    #174320
    PugsleyAddams
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    Don’t forget Yogi Berra, Cranny.

    #174323
    bccran
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    Yogi was a great baseball player, Pugs.

    Mike Shannon, at CBC, was named both the high school football player of the year and the high school basketball player of the year in the St. Louis Region his senior year. He went to Mizzou to play football, and some felt that he would have been in the running for the Heisman if he had stayed there, and not signed with Bing Divine.

    The only other athlete I know of who might have been as good was a guy by the name of Carl Genile, who also went to CBC. He made it to the pros in 3 sports – Football, Soccer, and Baseball.

    The best female athlete to ever come out of our community is obvious.

    #174353
    GameCard
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    Tim McCarver also went to CBC but in Memphis.

    #174354
    Ratsbuddy
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    Will Shannon be broadcasting Cardinal playoff games on the radio if they advance into the playoffs? Or is he 100% completely done?

    r/Esteemed Rat

    #174357
    gscottar
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    I think he will still do any playoff games that are at Busch Stadium. Hopefully there will be some.

    #174363
    mudville
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    For Shannon to say that he heard the Cardinals are for sale is almost like taking a parting shot at ownership. I’ll be surprised if they give him any perks like calling playoff games.

    #174665
    bicyclemike
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    Charlie James – another good athlete from that area. Played at Mizzou I believe, and then with the Cardinals. Same era as Shannon.

    St. Louis kept the Yankees in all-star caliber catching talent for two decades with Berra and then Elston Howard.

    Later another pretty good Howard came along, Ryan. Don’t know much about Ryan Howard’s prep career but am guessing he was a good football and basketball player in high school.

    #174668
    gscottar
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    I have a lot of fond memories of Mike Shannon. Like most on here I grew up listening to him and Jack. But as I think more about it, I can’t understand why he said what he did about the ownership. What was there to gain by it? If there is no truth to it then why say it at all? If there is some truth to it I still don’t see why you would say it on air like that. I can’t imagine the DeWitt’s would want it out there. Either there was some kind of grudge or senility or both. Either way it is sad for him to go out like that.

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