Cardinals Hall of Famer Tim McCarver and the power of storytelling

Best Podcast in Baseball

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Sports, Baseball

4.8 • 673 Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2023

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

One of the game's greatest bards and gentleman, Tim McCarver made his big-league debut at 17, played for the Cardinals, won with the Cardinals, and in his final tour as a Hall of Fame broadcaster returned to the Cardinals to call games. McCarver died Thursday, Feb. 16, 2023. He was 81. Back in May 2016, while on a road trip to Washington, McCarver sat in the stands with St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer Derrick Goold to talk about his return, the role John Mozeliak played in it, and why there is still power in storytelling in baseball, even in a world accelerated by Twitter. This is a special rebroadcast of that episode that first aired May 31, 2016. The Best Podcast in Baseball, sponsored by Closets by Design, is a production of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, StlToday.com, and Derrick Goold.

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0:00.0	The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.
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0:16.8	Hello, everybody, and welcome to a special best podcast in baseball, a tribute of a BPI.
0:23.0	Cardinals Hall of Famer and broadcast legend Tim McAver died Thursday, February 16th,
0:27.9	2023. He was 81. One of the games great bards and gentlemen. McCarver played for the Cardinals,
0:34.7	won titles with the Cardinals, and in his final tour as a Hall of Fame broadcaster called games for the Cardinals.
0:41.2	In May 2016, he and I sat together at the ballpark in Washington, D.C., and discussed the power of storytelling in baseball.
0:50.0	It was one of the great honors I had was to have many conversations about baseball with Macarver when he joined the Cardinals on the road.
0:57.6	This is one of those conversations.
0:59.7	And it begins after an introduction from McCarver's former broadcast partner, Dan McLaughlin.
1:07.0	All right, you ready?
1:08.1	Yeah, ready.
1:09.8	This is Dan McLaughlin. Television voice of the St. Louis Cardinals on Fox Sports Midwest.
1:15.1	You're about ready to listen to the best podcast in baseball with the very talented Derek Gould and my partner, Tim McCarver.
1:23.5	So if you're done washing your carpets, maybe doing your hair, and you're really, really bored, carve out 40 minutes, and you might learn something.
1:36.0	Hello everybody and welcome to another BPIB Short. I'm St. Louis Post-Dispatch baseball writer, Derek Gould.
1:42.2	Tim McCarver is in his third year calling St. Louis Cardinal
1:45.3	Games for Fox Sports Midwest. The Emmy Award winning broadcaster called 28 consecutive post seasons
1:51.1	and was a distinctive voice on many of the most memorable World Series moments of the past two
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