Thomas Michael Shannon (born July 15, 1939) is an American former professional baseball infielder / outfielder, who spent his entire Major League Baseball (MLB) career playing for the St. Louis Cardinals (1962–1970). Shannon has been a Cardinals radio broadcaster since 1972. Today we will discuss about Mike Shannon: Comments| Covid| New Wife| Health| Cardinals.
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Shannon was raised in St. Louis, Missouri and was an integral part of some of the Cards’ most successful seasons, during the 1960s. He was the proprietor of Mike Shannon’s Steaks and Seafood restaurant, in downtown St. Louis, until its closing, on January 30, 2016. Shannon still operates two Mike Shannon’s Grill locations, in Edwardsville, Illinois, and at the St. Louis Lambert International Airport, which is run by his grandson, Justin VanMatre.
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Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon has ignited a firestorm in his final regular-season homestand as a broadcaster for the franchise. He suggested on the air during Thursday’s Cardinals-Brewers game that “word on the street” was that the DeWitt family was looking to sell the club.
The comments were immediately refuted by team leadership in comments to FOX2 and other media outlets, including the team’s flagship radio station and our news partners at the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
Covid
It had been common knowledge for a few months that St. Louis Cardinals radio voice Mike Shannon would be back for his 50th, and final, year in the broadcast booth. What hadn’t been common knowledge was that it was almost Shannon’s final year. Period.
Shannon told the Post-Dispatch that he had spent 15 days in a hospital from late October through early November battling COVID-19. “I was going down,” he said. “I was probably going to die.” But after several medicines were tried unsuccessfully at St. Lukes Hospital in St. Louis County, Shannon said, “They gave me the stuff they gave the President and that turned the trick.”
Former President Donald Trump had taken the regeneron monoclonal antibody cocktail after he had contracted the coronavirus. “If they hadn’t given me that medicine . . . well, I have a different perspective about things now,” Shannon, 81, said.
New Wife
Mike Shannon has his hands full with Timmy, 4, and Peggi, 1 as he sits in on a story book session with his wife Judy and their other children Patti, 3, and Mike Jr., 5 in their living room in 1965.
Health
is a long road back for Shannon, who receives physical therapy three times a week and is working just six innings a game during spring training, a schedule that might or might not carry into his projected 50-game season (all home games) during the 2021 regular season. “It’s just going to take longer than I wish,” Shannon said. “But I’m getting stronger.”
Cardinals
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 Game 1 of the 1964 World Series against the New York Yankees, which St. Louis won 9-5.
