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Talkin' (Cardinals) Baseball


I grew up listening to the Cardinals on the "50,000 clear-channel, red-hot watts" of KMOX, the "Sports Voice of St. Louis," and I can remember laying in bed on sultry summer evenings throughout the early 1960s as the whirring attic fan tried to suck a little breeze through the open windows of my room while Joe Garagiola, Harry Caray, and Jack Buck brought the games to life.


Joe Garagiola, Harry Caray, and Jack Buck

The Cardinals hooked me then, and I'm still hooked over fifty years later.

 
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