Starting in 1970, Splittorff embarked on an impressive 15-year pitching career with the Kansas City Royals. He averaged nearly 15 wins and 220 innings per year for Kansas City and holds team records for wins with 166, starts with 392 and innings pitched with 2,555. In 1973, he became the first 20 game winner in… Read more »
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St. Elizabeth High School Baseball Program
Drive down two-lane Highway 52 east of Lake of the Ozarks, past the blooming springtime dogwoods in the valleys and along the Osage River, and you eventually pull into a town called St. Elizabeth. Here, they love their baseball. See the banners on the basketball gym wall? It’s decorated with success, including a banner that… Read more »
Charles “Casey” Stengel
Charles Dillon “Casey” Stengel (/ˈstɛŋɡəl/; July 30, 1890 – September 29, 1975) was an American Major League Baseball right fielder and manager, best known as the manager of the championship New York Yankees of the 1950s and later, the expansion New York Mets. Nicknamed “The Ol’ Perfessor”, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of… Read more »
Art Stewart
When longtime Kansas City Royals scout Art Stewart talks about his 60 years in baseball, it’s like flipping through a scrapbook of old black-and-white photos. The stories are almost too hard to believe, and yet you can listen for hours. This is a man who has scouted every Kansas City Royals player from rookie ball… Read more »
Mark Stillwell
In his 40 years covering and writing about college athletics, 2016 Missouri Sports Hall of Fame inductee Mark Stillwell steered a different course from his fellow sports information professionals. Working as Sports Information Director at Missouri State University, Stillwell shared his Bears’ weekend sports competition assignments with active participation in the U.S. Navy Reserve. From… Read more »
Mark Stratton
[For details, check out our flier] In the summers of his youth, a broken axe handle served as his makeshift baseball bat, while his family’s front yard in Monett was a daily sandlot. And, even if his youth team wasn’t scheduled to play, he’d throw on his wool uniform and bike to the city field,… Read more »
Charles Evard “Gabby” Street
It is doubtful that Charles Evard Street will be recognized as one of the great catchers in the Deadball Era of major league baseball. Chances are excellent that many baseball fans may not recall him at all. For Gabby, it was outside the white lines of a baseball diamond that brought him the most notoriety.… Read more »
Kevin Stubblefield
On a farm outside of Stoutland in mid-Missouri, he practiced jump shots on a goal in the barnyard and, in the summer, day-dreamed of being a big-leaguer by picking up rocks and swinging a wiffle ball bat. See the tree line to the left at the bottom of the hill? That was the outfield wall… Read more »
David Sturm
In 1976, his dreams of becoming a big-league baseball umpire were pulled away, as a pro umpire evaluator questioned his commitment to the profession. Call it a tough day for David Sturm. After all, years before, his doctor said he would have been legally blind if not for a pair of thick eyeglasses. And, if… Read more »
Jeff Suppan
They called him “Soup,” and he approached hitters the way a mechanic restores a vintage vehicle. That is, with patience, thinking and creativity. No, Jeff Suppan didn’t throw fastballs that left vapor trails. Instead, when the sun set on his 17-year career in Major League Baseball, he offered a comment that every up-and-coming athlete ought… Read more »
Rick Sutcliffe
Rick Sutcliffe was born in Independence, MO on July 21, 1956 and went on to star on the baseball diamond, as well as the football field and the basketball court at Van Horn High School in his home town. In 1974, at seventeen years of age, Sutcliffe was the number one draft pick by the… Read more »
Bruce Sutter
The lone 2006 inductee to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, Sutter was among the game’s top relief pitchers in the late 1970’s and early 1980’s. Sutter led the NL in saves five times and ranks 20th on the all-time saves list. Posting a 2.84 ERA with the Cubs, Cardinals and Braves, he… Read more »
Mike Swanson
He basically grew up in Kansas City’s old Municipal Stadium, where mom, Betty, worked for the Athletics and later for the Chiefs and where he himself later helped the Chiefs’ equipment manager in the locker room. In fact, in his final two years of high school, Mike Swanson traveled with the Chiefs in the 1970… Read more »
Mike Sweeney
A 16-year veteran of Major League Baseball, Mike Sweeney spent the bulk of his career playing first base for the Kansas City Royals. During those years with the Royals, he batted .299 and hammered 197 home runs, while batting in 837 runs and swiping 50 bases. The 6’1″, 195 pounder from Orange, CA appeared in… Read more »
Jack Talley
Growing up in the late 1960s and early 1970s in Missouri City, a river town northeast of Kansas City, Jack Talley, his siblings and school-age buddies were usually outside in good weather. “We were always playing something whether it was football, baseball or basketball,” Talley said. “With four siblings and three other family members my… Read more »
Lee Thomas
A St. Louis native, Lee was signed by the New York Yankees in 1954. It was with the Angels that Lee was named to the All Star Rookie Team in 1961 and the next season earned a place on the A.L. All-Star Team. In 1972, he joined the Cardinals and remained with the organization until… Read more »