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Inductee spotlight: Mike Kelly, Voice of the Missouri Tigers

It’s true that sports broadcasters, by nature, do a lot of talking. However, the pro’s pros also listen. And, for Mike Kelly, he was all ears in his first season of calling Missouri Tigers basketball games. And why not? The advice that he still remembers to this day came from none other than the legendary… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: St. Louis Cardinals speedster Vince Coleman

He’s got the story of perseverance. Of succeeding after being cut from his school’s ninth-grade baseball team. Of heading off to a little-known college without the safety net of an athletic scholarship. And of finding his way to the big leagues and becoming a star. However, former St. Louis Cardinals speedster Vince Coleman wasn’t just… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: New Bloomfield High School Baseball Program

The blue-collar teens from a farming community just north of the Missouri River arrived at the ballpark every day in the spring toting along their ball gloves, bats and dreams. Well, that and a collective fearless attitude because, despite representing a Class 1 school, they were often matched opposite Class 5 teams. As one former… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: University of Central Missouri Baseball Program

Tucked into a hillside in Warrensburg sits one of the most impressive baseball facilities in the country – complete with synthetic turf, four rows of chair-back seats between the dugouts, a grandstand of chair-back seats and dugout heaters. Oh, and see that Morton building nearby? It houses indoor batting cages, a weight room and the… Read more »

Inductee spotlight: NFL official, St. Joseph native George Hayward

Years ago, George Hayward officiated intramural football games for fellow students at Missouri Western University and, on the weekends, would ref the local youth Pop Warner League for $2 a game. It’s a great memory for the St. Joseph native, because those thankless roles led to the big-time in the National Football League, where Hayward… Read more »