Subject: Jack Buck

• Belgium to St. Louis: We're Not So Different, Are We?

  July 16, 2008

• Card of the Week: 1981 Bill "Parallel Lines" Buckner

  October 31, 2008

• The Final Bell

  January 13, 1999

• Letters to the Editor

  January 13, 1999

• The Yak-Box Tapes

  April 7, 1999

• My Cardinals: Will Leitch, Blogger Superhero

  Opening Day is finally here. Winter has loosened its grip on our little corner of the world (well, sort of, anyway), and spring is beginning to bloom. Our annual ritual of renewal and rebirth is a few scant moments away, after the months of waiting impatiently for it to arrive. I could give you a primer on this year's Cardinals team, complete with a hundred different acronyms being tossed around, but you've probably gotten enough of that already, both here and elsewhere. And let's face

  April 6, 2009

• AND NOW, SOME SUPERFICIAL QUESTIONS

  February 2, 2000

• St. Louis Legislator Vows to Sue State Should Welfare Provision Become Law

  State Rep. Don CallowayI just got off the phone with State Representative Don Calloway (D - St. Louis County). Haven't heard of Mr. Calloway? You soon will. The freshman legislator is the savant who's filed a bill to finally change that embarrassing stretch of Interstate 70 known as the "Mark McGwire Highway" to the "Jack Buck Memorial Highway." Calloway (a former corporate attorney with Thompson Coburn who now works for the defense firm Sindel Sindel & Noble) has also filed legislation aime

  April 8, 2009

• My Cardinals: Tim Lane

  This past year, over at Viva El Birdos, I wrote a post on Christmas Eve called "God Bless Us, Everyone." It wasn't about baseball, as is often the case with the things that I write, but about my own feelings at Christmas about, well, just life in general. I was pretty proud of the way the piece turned out, thought it actually said what I wanted it to say, which isn't always the case. A couple of days after I wrote it, I received a very nice e-mail from a man named Tim Lane. Mr. Lane is a Ca

  April 9, 2009

• Phillies Announcer Harry Kalas, 73, Dies Afer Collapse in Broadcast Booth

  Harry Kalas, the voice of the Philadelphia Phillies, was found unconscious earlier today in the Washington Nationals' broadcast booth, where he was preparing to work the Nats-Phillies game. He was taken to the hospital, where he later passed away. Cause of death is as yet unknown. The death of Mr. Kalas yet another step closer to the end of the broadcasting age, it seems. Of the great old broadcasters, only a couple are left. Vin Scully, out in Los Angeles, is the grand old man of them all

  April 13, 2009

• The St. Louis Shag

  October 31, 2007

• Foul Frequency

  PR flops. Staff upheaval. Shrill talk-show hosts. The Cardinals' flagship station can't seem to find the strike zone.

  April 12, 2006

• "You’ve discovered what we’ve known all along -- that the sport has a surprisingly rich and fascinating history and that, dang it, it’s fun for everyone."

  Week of November 23, 2006

  November 22, 2006

• Blade Run

  "It's easier to get your genitals pierced than to get a good shave in St. Louis"

  July 6, 2005

• Big or Rich?

  Unreal takes matters into our own hands (tee hee!) and re-enters the wonderful world of note-passing with the opposite sex. Plus, we settle the age-old debate: Which is better, Clayton or Ladue?

  October 27, 2004

• Italian Heritage Tours

  (It's pronounced "I-talian")

  October 6, 2004

• Trumped

  Dick Gephardt also likes kittens and cross-stitching; Unreal has fun with greed and other mortal sins

  July 16, 2003

• Static Freefall

  Carroll's departure from KMOX paced by station's ratings decline

  February 5, 2003

• The Law's an Ass

  Week of October 2, 2002

  October 2, 2002

• Redbird's Burden

  La Russa endures a hell of a season, escaping the purgatory of tradition

  October 2, 2002

• Best TV-Sports Anchor

  September 25, 2002

• Best Member of the Loyal Opposition

  Jeanette Mott Oxford

  September 25, 2002

• Best Sports-Broadcast Personality

  Mike Shannon, KMOX (1120 AM)

  September 25, 2002

• Best Pro Coach

  Tony La Russa

  September 25, 2002

• Best Cardinal

  Albert Pujols

  September 25, 2002

• Riverfront Enquirer?

  Week of July 3, 2002

  July 3, 2002

• Sudden Death

  Halo and hype over Jack Buck pierced by the passing of Darryl Kile

  June 26, 2002

• No-Show

  Week of July 10, 2002

  July 10, 2002

• Jack and Jill

  February 2, 2000

• WINGENIOUS

  November 17, 1999

• 1998: The Year in Sports

  January 6, 1999

• Baseball Announcer Catch-Phrases are Hopelessly Out of Date

  Via InsideSTLImagine if you will, Mike Shannon as the color man for the NBA. Baseball announcers are delightfully, hopelessly behind the times when it comes to coining catch-phrases to describe the on-field action. So much so, that when young bucks and young Bucks try to roll out a new one-liner, America collectively cocks its head in disgusted curiosity. A few probably paraphrase Jack Buck and say to their friends, "I don't believe what I just heard."But with the excitement over the NBA playoff

  May 5, 2009

• Ten Memorable Moments and Five to Forget at Busch Stadium II

  July 8, 2009

• Map Locations At A Glance: Miscellaneous

  July 8, 2009

• Map Locations At A Glance: Cemeteries

  July 8, 2009

• Map Locations At A Glance: Restaurants

  July 8, 2009

• Fire Destroys Home of Carole Buck, Widow of Cardinals Broadcaster Jack Buck

  www.nab.orgJack Buck​A fire early this morning ripped through the suburban St. Louis home of Carole Buck, widow of the late Cardinals broadcaster Jack Buck. According to media reports, the fire awoke Buck's widow, Carole Buck, around 1 a.m. this morning. She called 911 herself and escaped the blaze unharmed. Several fire departments responded to the call and have apparently rendered the home at 11 Glenn Creek Lane in Ladue a total loss.View Larger MapCarole Buck's home at 11 Glenn Creek Lane -

  August 4, 2009

• Season's End

  urbanprankster.com​Tonight, the Cardinals will begin their final series of the year. Well, final series of the regular season, anyway. Luckily, postseason baseball awaits for our boys in red this year, rather than the specter of another October spent rootrootrooting against the Cubbies. So am I sad to see the season end? Perhaps a bit wistful? Oh, come now. You should all know me better than that by now. I'm always sad and wistful, whether I have a reason to be or not.

  October 2, 2009

• St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame Confirms Blues' Place as City's Red-Headed Stepchild

  Missing: Brian Sutter's teeth and more Blues players in the St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame.​Need more proof that St. Louis is a "baseball town"? Check out the names (below) of the athletes and broadcasters inducted yesterday to the inaugural class of the new St. Louis Sports Hall of Fame. Ten of the 24 inductees played for the Cardinals or grew up here and played for another MLB team. The sport with the next highest number of inductees was football, with four athletes earning a spot for their g

  March 17, 2010