Lou Adamie was the major league baseball scorekeeper in St. Louis for more than four decades. Working over 4,000 games for both the Browns and Cardinals from 1941 through the 1982 season, Adamie missed only one game in his 42 years of service. He was the official scorekeeper for three All Star Games and eight… Read more »
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Matt Adams
He starred at an NCAA Division II university in Pennsylvania, proved baseball scouts wrong that he was just a mere slugger and then helped one of baseball’s most storied franchises create even more tradition. For Matt Adams, he can always sit back and reminisce feeling great about his time in the game, especially for the… Read more »
Mike Alden
Mike Alden has been at the helm of Missouri athletics since 1998, and it’s no shock his tenure has produced the most comprehensive run of athletic and academic success in school history. Through capital campaign efforts, Alden has overseen more than $265 million in private gifts for Tiger Athletics and, in 2014, Mizzou’s Memorial Stadium… Read more »
Bobby Allison
To hear leaders across Springfield describe him, Bobby Allison walks around with a halo and a pair of heavenly wings. Not convinced? In south Springfield, there is Miracle League Ball Field where developmentally disabled kids can play baseball. A mile west sits Harmony House, a shelter for domestically abused families. Over at Missouri State University,… Read more »
Anheuser-Busch Post 299
1962 Anheuser-Busch Post 299- American Legion National Champions – Managed by Don Seifert and coached by Charles Muller, this 1962 St. Louis team also traveled to Bismarck, where they defeated Honolulu Post 11 to capture the Howard P. Savage National Champion Trophy. Bill Matan, who would later play for the NFL’s New York Giants, received… Read more »
Rick Ankiel
At the dawn of Rick Ankiel’s Comeback Tour in 2005, with his once promising pitching career shelved and his bat and outfielder’s glove dusted off, uncertainty was a natural narrative. But not for his soon-to-be manager of the St. Louis Cardinals’ Double-A Springfield club. Said Chris Maloney, who had readied Ankiel’s pitching prowess at the… Read more »
Ken Ash
The numbers paint an incredible picture of the Show-Me State Games: 25,000-plus; $619 million; $1.4 million. In order, that’s roughly the average number of participants every summer since 2004; the Games’ economic impact on Columbia in its 31-year history; and the non-profit’s annual budget. Certainly, Ken Ash, the executive director of the Show-Me State Games… Read more »
Scott Bailes
A product of Parkview High School (Springfield) and (Southwest) Missouri State University, Scott Bailes played nine seasons in the Major Leagues as a member of the Cleveland Indians, California Angels and the Texas Rangers. In his 1986 rookie campaign with the Indians, Scott carded 10 wins and 7 saves. He also notched 60 strikeouts in… Read more »
Mark Bailey
In baseball, everybody’s got a story – some better than others. And, for Mark Bailey, his is the stuff that Little Leaguers dream of. Sure, he was often one or two years younger than most of his classmates while playing on ball fields and public parks in Springfield during the 1970s. In fact, he was… Read more »
Empire Bank
Empire Bank has been serving the Ozarks since 1956 and offers a host of community based banking and financial services in Springfield, Nixa, Ozark, Highlandville, Marshfield, Strafford, Fair Grove, Pleasant Hope, Republic, and Battlefield. Empire Bank’s holding company, Central Bancompany, has been ranked four years in a row by Forbes Magazine as one of America’s… Read more »
Hank Bauer
A long-time resident of Kansas City, Hank Bauer spent more than 18 years as an outstanding outfielder in the American League, predominantly with the New York Yankees. He joined the Kansas City Athletics in 1959 and was named the team’s manager in 1961. In 1963, Bauer joined the Baltimore Orioles as manager, leading them to… Read more »
Bob “Doc” Bauman
Bauman came to St. Louis University in 1928 while only 19 years old. He served the university as its athletic trainer from 1928 until 1979. In addition, he became the trainer for the St. Louis Browns in 1938 until the team moved to become the Baltimore Orioles in 1953. He was invited to join the… Read more »
Sallie Beard
In the fall of 1974, two years after the passage of federal Title IX legislation, the door to Sallie Beard’s office swung open, as several women on the Missouri Southern State University campus sought to start a basketball team. Suddenly, the teacher who had a bias against athletics – those were her own words –… Read more »
James Thomas “Cool Papa” Bell
Cool Papa Bell may well have been the fastest man ever to play the game of baseball. We’ll never know for sure, mostly because the Negro Leagues were not well covered in the press, and Bell, who played from 1922-46, never got the chance to show what he could do in the major leagues. “I… Read more »
Howard Bell
He might have played pro baseball if not for a car wreck in his early 20s, and who knows where his journey would have taken him. Fortunately, the baseball gods had a great plan for Howard Bell as a high school baseball coach. “He was a kid magnet,” said Mark Stratton, the longtime Glendale High… Read more »
Bob Belote
In sports, sometimes meeting just the right person can set you on an incredible career path. During his Missouri State University days in Springfield, Bob Belote involved himself in campus recreation and worked part-time for the then-named Springfield Park Board, where he met his future wife, Deana. He also became friends with Jodie Adams, (MSHOF… Read more »