On this day in 1986, Joe Buck was celebrating his 17th birthday by visiting his father, Jack, in the Cardinals broadcast booth. Without warning, Jack told Joe to take over then walked out. Joe didn’t bobble the ball at all. Instead, he stepped up to the plate and delivered a near perfect announcing performance. Jack …
When brothers Frank and Stanley Robison took over baseball’s St. Louis Browns in 1899, they decided to change the team’s name – and its uniforms. The team would be known as The Perfectos, and the trim on its uniforms would now be red, instead of brown Legend has it St. Louis Republic baseball scribe Willie …
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