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Media Views: Rick 'The Commish' Hummel reaches 50 years at the Post-Dispatch

Post-Dispatch sportswriter Rick Hummel is honored by the Cardinals for 50 years reporting for the newspaper during a break in their game against Arizona at Busch Stadium on Tuesday, June 29, 2021. (Robert Cohen,

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Post-Dispatch baseball writer Rick Hummel is honored by the Cardinals for 50 years at the newspaper during a break in Tuesday's game.

Rick Hummel never aspired as a kid growing up in Quincy, Ill., to be a baseball writer. He wasn't even pursuing that career after graduating from the University of Missouri's esteemed journalism school.