Former St. Louis Cardinals player and longtime Cardinals broadcaster Thomas Michael “Mike” Shannon has died at the age of 83. Shannon was a member of three Cardinals World Series teams in 1964, 1967 and 1968. He also spent some 50 years as a member of the team’s radio broadcasts. He was recognized in recent years by the National Baseball Hall of Fame as a finalist for the prestigious Ford C. Frick broadcasting award and he was enshrined in the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in 2014.
