Mike Shannon

St. Louis Globe-Democrat

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Baseball
Sports
St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team)
Shannon, Mike

Saint Louis (Mo.)

Mike Shannon outhit fellow Cardinal outfielders Lou Brock and Curt Flood in 1966, his best season at the plate in a nine-year major league career. But because he loved the Cardinals, as he will tell you, and because he loves "the great game of baseball," as he does tell you almost every summer day, Mike Shannon moved from right field to third base for the 1967 season without a whimper. Come to think of it, Mike Shannon probably never whimpered in his life. The man whos is in his eighth year as a broadcaster of Cardinal games, a man 11 days from his 40th birthday, does not whimper his way through life. Rather he bulls his way through. "He's been there and he plays it," says a friend. "He's a strutter." And, armed only with his confidence, he plows his way into unknown territory. Dal Maxvill, the shortstop on that 1967 Cardinal championship team and now a St. Louis coach, remembers Shannon's first year as a third baseman.

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