He’s in the KMOX booth, where Mike Shannon, his old third baseman on the 1967 champs, announced to Cardinal Country that the beloved Red had passed.
He’s in the high socks, the one’s he’d wear with his uniform at spring training, into his 90s, the perfect touch.
He’s over there by second base, where “he had probably the smoothest hands I’ve ever seen in baseball,” Wally Moon said in 2017 by phone. “A natural second baseman — a little unusual, but he could pick that ball. He did a lot of backhand picks that you don’t see in today’s market, but he was just fluid.