Isadore Middleman was the team doctor for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1949 until he died in 1968. He received his M.D. from St. Louis University in 1933, then served his internship and residency at Jewish Hospital, also in St. Louis. After several years in private practice, as a surgeon, he became the chief of… Read more »
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Bernie Miklasz
In the old days of newspapers, sportswriters who climbed the ladder the right way, by rolling up their sleeves and doing the grunt work, earned respect from the old guard. Working in the trenches, they’d call it. And that’s exactly the way Bernie Miklasz began his career. At age 16, he wrote for a weekly… Read more »
Jack Miles
Jack Miles counts himself among the fortunate ones in life. While most others have no choice but to hang up their cleats after playing their final game in high school or college, he spent his adult life working in sports. That’s not to say Miles simply held down the fort, so to speak, in his… Read more »
Ivan Milton
Ivan Milton was the longest-tenured athletic trainer Missouri State University has had many noteworthy accomplishments in his nearly three-decade career on the Springfield campus, as he was influential the establishment and expansion of a number of training facilities and services. In his first year at Missouri State University, he opened and supplied the training room… Read more »
Doug Minnis
Doug became his coaching and teaching career at Bishop Ward High School in Kansas City in 1956. He was the assistant athletic director, assistant football and basketball coach and head baseball coach. Minnis moved to Missouri Western in 1969 as the assistant football coach and head baseball coach. He started the baseball program and built… Read more »
Jeff Montgomery
The Kansas City Royals’ all-time saves leader, Montgomery enjoyed an impressive 12 year career with the club. His 304 saves ranked him ninth in Major League Baseball history upon his retirement in 1999. The Royals Hall of Famer leads the club in all-time appearances with 686 and his career hits allowed per nine innings (8.05)… Read more »
Terry Moore
A right-handed batter and thrower, Moore began his professional baseball career in 1932. In 1934, he hit .328 in the American Association and earned a roster spot with the Cardinals the following season. Moore joined the Cardinals the year after the Gashouse Gang won the 1934 World Series. He hit for a career .280 batting… Read more »
Dayton Moore
The story goes that he was all set to decline the offer to become the next general manager of the Kansas City Royals, say thank you and go about his career. In fact, friends across professional baseball had urged him to say no. In the spring of 2006, Dayton Moore sat across from David Glass,… Read more »
Mike Moustakas
The first time he played in the Show-Me State, he arrived with bat in tow as a prospect hitter for a Kansas City Royals farm club. This was 2010, and Mike Moustakas was 21 years old, college age but having been drafted in the first round out of a California high school and eager to… Read more »
Bill Mueller
Bill Mueller was a standout baseball player for nearly a decade in Missouri, starting at De Smet Jesuit High School in Creve Coeur and then spending four years at Missouri State University in Springfield. The accolades achieved in Missouri paved the way for an 11-year career in Major League Baseball, which included winning a World… Read more »
Bob Murrey
Robert “Bob” Murrey was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. His family moved to Waynesville, Missouri when he was 14 years old. There, he attended high school, graduating in 1946. As a high school student, he led the Waynesville High School basketball team to a third-place finish in the one-class Missouri State High School Basketball Tournament… Read more »
Stan Musial
Stan the Man In the minds of sports fans everywhere, Stan Musial and the St. Louis Cardinals are forever linked. Musial started with the Cardinals as a pitcher, but in 1941, he was converted to an outfielder/first baseman because of an arm injury. His major league career, exclusively with the Cardinals, stretched from 1941 to… Read more »
Kathy Nelson
The quote from a dear friend still comes to mind all these years later, a reminder that sometimes you’ve got to roll the dice and take a chance. Back in 2010, the Kansas City Sports Commission recruited veteran TV journalist-turned-executive Kathy Nelson to run WIN for KC, which empowers the lives of girls and women… Read more »
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 »
Al Nipper
In baseball, everybody’s got a story – some better than others. And when it comes to Al Nipper, he’s got a lot of good ones. Think he loved the game at an early age? A St. Louis Cardinals fan, he used to plot down $1.25 for a blue-marked GA ticket into old Busch Stadium and… Read more »
John “Buck” O’Neil
John Jordan O’Neil was nicknamed “Buck” after the co-owner of the Miami Giants, Buck O’Neal. His father played on a local team, thus exposing Buck to baseball at an early age. Buck O’Neil has been part of Kansas City’s baseball scene for more than half a century, dating back to 1936 and his first visit… Read more »