Longtime St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon has died, the staff introduced Sunday. He was 83. No explanation for loss of life with given.
“The St. Louis Cardinals had been saddened to be taught this morning of the passing of Cardinals Corridor of Famer and beloved St. Louisan Mike Shannon,” Cardinals proprietor and CEO Invoice DeWitt Jr. stated in an announcement. “Mike’s distinctive connection to Cardinals followers and his teammates was mirrored in his unbridled ardour for the sport, the Cardinals, and the St. Louis group. On behalf of your entire Cardinals group, we share our condolences with Mike’s household and mates, and his many followers.”
“My dad’s life was encapsulated by his devotion to his household, his mates, the Cardinals group and the St. Louis group,” Tim Shannon, Mike’s son, stated on behalf of the household in an announcement. “My dad lived his life to the fullest, and he squeezed each drop from it.”
Born and raised in St. Louis, Shannon signal with the Cardinals as an novice free agent in 1958 and reached the massive leagues at age 23 in 1962. He was the membership’s beginning proper fielder throughout their 1964 World Sequence championship run earlier than shifting to 3rd base in deference to new addition Roger Maris in 1967. Shannon began on the scorching nook in the course of the Cardinals’ 1967 World Sequence run.
In Recreation 1 of the 1964 Fall Basic, Shannon hit a game-tying two-run residence run in opposition to New York Yankees lefty Whitey Ford. St. Louis went on to win the sport and sequence.
Shannon’s enjoying profession was lower quick by kidney illness. He performed his complete nine-season profession with the Cardinals from 1962-70 and retired as a .255/.311/.387 hitter with 710 hits and 68 residence runs. Shannon completed seventh within the 1968 NL MVP voting and had his greatest season in 1966, when he slashed .288/.339/.462 and set profession highs in homers (16) and stolen bases (eight). He gained two World Sequence titles (1964, 1967) plus one other NL pennant (1968).
Following his enjoying profession, Shannon joined the Cardinals entrance workplace in 1971 after which moved into the published sales space in 1972. He retired following the 2021 season, after 50 years of calling Cardinals video games. Shannon additionally labored NBC’s Baseball Recreation of the Week and referred to as St. Louis Cardinals NFL video games on radio throughout his profession.
Amongst numerous different accolades, Shannon was inducted into the Missouri Sports activities Corridor of Fame in 1999 and the St. Louis Cardinals Corridor of Fame in 2014. Shannon spent 62 years with the Cardinals group general.