Mike Shannon

Mike Shannon (born July 15, 1939) is a former American Major League Baseball player and current radio sportscaster.

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July 15 - 1939 - American - Major League Baseball - Radio - Sportscaster

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A Missouri native, Shannon began his big-league career with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1962. In 1964 he became the team's regular right fielder, shifting to third base (in order to make room for the newly acquired Roger Maris) in 1967. Shannon played in three World Series for the Cardinals. He hit a game-tying two-run homer off Whitey Ford in the Game 1 of the 1964 World Series against the New York Yankees, which St. Louis won 9-5. In Game 3 of the 1967 World Series against the Boston Red Sox, Shannon hit a key home run off of Gary Bell. In Game 7 of the 1968 World Series against the Detroit Tigers, Shannon's solo home run off of Mickey Lolich was the Cardinals' only run off of Lolich as the Tigers clinched. In 1970 his contracted nephritis, a rare kidney disease, which ended his playing career.

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Missouri - St. Louis Cardinals - 1962 - 1964 - Right fielder - Third base - Roger Maris - 1967 - World Series - Whitey Ford - 1964 World Series - New York Yankees - 1967 World Series - Boston Red Sox - 1968 World Series - Detroit Tigers - Mickey Lolich - 1970 - Nephritis

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Shannon joined the Cardinals? promotional staff in 1971; two years later he moved to the team's radio booth. For three decades Shannon was paired with Hall of Fame announcer Jack Buck over station KMOX and the rest of the Cardinals' radio network; following Buck's death in 2002, he was named as the team's lead radio voice.

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Hall of Fame - Jack Buck - KMOX - 2002

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Shannon is a 1999 inductee of the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame.

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