Mike Shannon (born July 15, 1939) is a former American Major League Baseball player and current radio sportscaster. Mike Shannon has become a beloved broadcaster among Cardinals' fans, having been raised in St. Louis, having played with the Cardinals during some of its most successul years, operating an area restaurant and having broadcasted games over the radio for the entire lifetime of many young fans. Early life Shannon was born and raised in St. Louis, Missouri. He graduated grade school from Epiphany of Our Lord Catholic School, and he graduated high school at Christian Brothers College High School in 1957. He attended the University of Missouri before leaving to begin his professional baseball career. Shannon has commented that if football players were paid better during his era, he probably would have stayed at Missouri, and sought a professional football career. He believed himself a better football player, and his former coac

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