Talk about having a destiny to coach. As a teen, Howard Quigley kept books on ways to play baseball, football and basketball – and you could find his nose buried in them just before the start of every season. Eventually, as a baseball player at Missouri State University, Quigley realized the obvious, that the game… Read more »
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Jamie Quirk
During his 18 year playing career, Quirk appeared in 984 Major League games, 525 of those as a catcher. He compiled a .240 career average with 43 home runs and 247 RBI and played for a total of eight different teams, including the 1980 AL Champion Royals, the 1985 World Champion Royals and the 1990… Read more »
Dan Quisenberry
His major league career began when in July of 1979, he was brought up from Triple A to play for the Royals and earned his first save later that month. In 1980, he earned his first Rolaids and Sporting News Fireman of the Year Award, which would prove to be a record setting total of… Read more »
Rob Rains
He spent his youth in the 1960s here in the Ozarks, listening to the St. Louis Cardinals through the static of a transistor radio and, figuring his baseball talent wouldn’t take him far, he thought of another way of reaching the big leagues. For Rob Rains, if you couldn’t play for them, why not write… Read more »
Jay Randolph, Sr.
In 1966, Randolph joined KMOX-CBS Radio in St. Louis, where he covered St. Louis Cardinals football and hosted daily sports shows. Two years later, he became the Sports Director of KSD-TV/KSDK in St. Louis, a post he held until 1988. Since then, Jay has made significant contributions to PGA, LPGA and Senior PGA telecasts along… Read more »
“Red” Reagan
Born in Bismark, Missouri, John Lee Reagan coached baseball 36 years (1958–1993) at Murray State University, amassing a record of 776–508–11, including 11 Ohio Valley Conference championships. He is a member of the Ohio Valley Conference, Murray State, American Baseball Coaches Association, Missouri Athletic and Bismarck (Missouri) High School halls of fame. The baseball field at… Read more »
Ken Reitz
A right-handed hitting thirdbaseman, Reitz played for the St. Louis Cardinals (1972–75, 1977–80), San Francisco Giants (1976), Chicago Cubs (1981) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1982). He was nicknamed the “Zamboni” for his skill at scooping up ground balls on the artificial turf of Busch Memorial Stadium. In his rookie season of 1973, replaced Joe Torre as… Read more »
Jerry Reuss
Quick, remember the moment you knew what wanted to be in life? Jerry Reuss does. He was 8, and had just attended his first St. Louis Cardinals game at old Sportsman’s Park. This was, of course, long before he led St. Louis County’s Ritenour High School to the 1966 and 1967 Missouri state baseball championships… Read more »
Ned Reynolds
In the movie classic “It’s A Wonderful Life,” Clarence, the guardian angel delivers two memorable lines, saying “Each man’s life touches so many other lives.” He goes on to say, “No man is a failure who has friends.” Perhaps those words best describe Edwin T. “Ned” Reynolds, the longtime sports director of Springfield-based KYTV. For… Read more »
Branch Rickey
In a career that spanned multiple generations and multiple revolutionary changes in baseball, Branch Rickey was always looking to innovate. A conservative and religious man who notably refused to participate in Sunday ball games as a player and a manager, Rickey was anything but traditional in the way he approached baseball as an executive. He… Read more »
Kerry Robinson
He had grown up in the shadow of the Gateway Arch in St. Louis, playing on baseball sandlots in the summers years before willing his way into professional baseball. So in 2001, when in Triple-A, Kerry Robinson got the call of a lifetime. Sure, he had made his big-league debut three years earlier for Tampa… Read more »
Elwin Charles “Preacher” Roe
A native West Plains, Elwin “Preacher” Roe signed with the Cardinals farm team in 1938 where he played until signing with the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1944, where he pitched until 1947. In 1948, he began a highly successful seven year stint with the Brooklyn Dodgers, where the left-hander was especially effective in 1951 at 22-3,… Read more »
Steve Rogers
Steve Rogers was born in Jefferson City and raised in Springfield. He was drafted by the Montreal Expos in the 1st round of the 1971 amateur draft. Rogers averaged 14 wins per season between 1974 and 1985, with his most productive season coming in 1982 when he collected a career-high 19 wins, pitched four shutouts, and… Read more »
John Rooney
The start of John Rooney’s storied broadcasting career dates back to 1971, when he launched his career as a play-by-play sports announcer in Lexington, Mo. With some experience under his belt, he later secured a position with KFRU in Columbia. He then headed to Okmulgee, OK to do play-by-play for local high schools, while also… Read more »
1985 Kansas City Royals
What a year 1985 was for the Kansas City Royals, who captured their first World Series in franchise history after years of coming oh-so-close. Pitting the two Missouri teams against one another, the 1985 Fall Classic was known alternatively as the I-70 Series and the Show-Me Series. The Series opened in Kansas City, but St.… Read more »
Bret Saberhagen
Enshrinement: Bret Saberhagen The story goes that, not long after the Kansas City Royals added right-hander Bret Saberhagen to the roster ahead of the 1984 season, sports writers gathered around then-manager Dick Howser and asked, “Why now?” After all, Saberhagen was at the ripe young age of 19 years old. And so Howser, who had… Read more »