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Tim McCarver, former standout Cardinals catcher and famed baseball broadcaster, dies at 81 Dan Caesar 1 hr ago
St. Louis Post Dispatch
He had a stellar baseball career, a bulldog of a catcher who won two World Series with the Cardinals in the 1960s and played in three. He had an even more decorated run after his playing days ended, an unparalleled marathon as a network television analyst on the sport’s biggest stage before finishing with a stint in the Cards' TV booth.
Tim McCarver, the man from Memphis whose touch of a Southern accent was a lifelong trademark, died there Thursday morning of heart failure. He was 81 and his passing was announced by the Baseball Hall of Fame, in which he was a member as a broadcaster.
McCarver had a record 34-year stretch of broadcasting big-league baseball at the highest level. He called 24 of the 29 World Series from 1985-2013, across three networks, wrapping up the unprecedented run with 14 in a row. In one stretch, he called postseason contests for 29 consecutive years. He also did 22 All-Star games, another record for an analyst. ...
McCarver had 21 seasons as a big-league player, from the time he was called up by the Cardinals in 1959 until wrapping it up by playing in six games for the Phillies in 1980 — making him one of the few to have played in four decades. He was inducted into the Cardinals' Hall of Fame in 2017. ...
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