When I caught Glenn Brummer on Sunday — unlike the Giants could in 1982 when he stole home — the former Cardinal was driving from Springfield, Ill., to Branson. It just seemed right. Upon these highways, which connect Cardinal Country, thousands of fans listened to thousands of innings broadcast by Mike Shannon over the years. And it was Shannon’s voice that figuratively connected Cardinal Country.
“Whether it was Illinois, Missouri or, in fact, nationwide,” said Brummer, whose inexplicable extra-inning steal of home was captured, for eternity, by the energetic Cardinals Radio Network call of Shannon, whose death at 83 was announced by the Cardinals on Sunday.