ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The 2021 Major League Baseball season will be the last for longtime St. Louis Cardinals broadcaster Mike Shannon.
Cardinals' Senior Vice President Dan Farrell confirmed to KMOX that Shannon will retire after this season. He has been known as "The Voice of the Cardinals" for nearly 50 years.
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The 81-year-old former Cardinals player has called only Cardinals homes games since the 2016. He was a finalist for the 2020 Ford C. Frick Award, which is presented annually to someone for excellence in baseball broadcasting by the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
Shannon's first season on the microphone was in 1972 with Jack Buck on KMOX.
He's been part of the Cardinals organization since 1958, played for St. Louis from 1962 to 1970 and then spent on year in the front office.
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