by Bill Pollock | Jul 12, 2012 | Sports Features
One piece of evidence that the city of St. Louis is a great baseball town is the fact that for the sixth straight season, the market had the highest number of viewers for MLB’s All-Star Game. Kansas City was a close second, while national numbers for the game...
by Bill Pollock | Jul 11, 2012 | Sports Features
As the years were winding down on Tony La Russa’s managerial career, after every baseball season, he would drive from St. Louis to his home in northern California and process the past season and decide what his future would hold. It’s only fitting that with the help...
by Bill Pollock | Jul 11, 2012 | News, Sports Features
There were plenty of highlights for the Cardinals in the 83rd All-Star game in Kansas City and Billy Butler came up to bat twice for the home crowd, but it was members of the San Francisco Giants that helped sparked the National League to an 8-0 win over the American...
by Bill Pollock | Jul 10, 2012 | Sports Features
I just did an interview on WGEM out of the Hannibal/Quincy area and I was expecting to talk more about Prince Fielder’s night during the Home Run Derby or offer my insights into Carlos Beltran’s debut, but the hosts started on the topic of the fans at Kauffman Stadium...
by Mike Lear | Jul 10, 2012 | News
The All-Star Game has brought about 60 thousand people to Kansas City this week, and that has brought together an all-star team of regional emergency planners to prepare for it. Kansas City communications officer Dennis Gagnon says the city’s emergency...
