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Article: SPIRIT OF ST. LOUIS ALBERT PUJOLS' CAREER WITH THE CARDINALS HAS TAKEN OFF MUCH THE SAME WAY HE HITS THE BALL - WITH A SMOOTH BUT POWERFUL IMPACT.(Hardball)
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- Rocky Mountain News (Denver, CO)
- Article date:
- September 8, 2003
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Byline: Jack Etkin
ROCKY MOUNTAIN NEWS
ST. LOUIS -- Forty-six years in the St. Louis organization have given Mike Shannon a deep and lasting Cardinals perspective. He began playing for the team in 1962, when Stan Musial was winding down his glorious career and Bob Gibson was becoming an All-Star for the first time.
This is the 32nd year Shannon, a St. Louis native, has been doing Cardinals radio broadcasts. He's as much a part of the humid St. Louis summer as a cold Budweiser. Shannon, 64, can gush about the team and its rich past and becomes effusive when weaving Albert Pujols, 23, and his first three seasons that practically defy belief into the team's ...
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