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Mother of Cardinals manager Mike Shildt dies at 85

Cardinals manager Mike Shildt, who is one of three candidates for the National League Manager of the Year to be announced Tuesday night, first got into professional baseball doing odd jobs in the clubhouse more than 40 years ago for the Charlotte, N.C., franchise in the Baltimore Orioles organization. His mother, Lib, was an administrative assistant for the Charlotte O’s at the time.

Throughout Shildt’s long road through Organized Baseball, which covered scouting and then coaching and managing at the minor league level before he got to the major leagues as a coach and then manager, his mother was his biggest supporter.