He had a stellar baseball career, a bulldog of a catcher who won two World Series with the Cardinals in the 1960s and played in three. He had an even more decorated run after his playing days ended.
By Dan Caesar, St. Louis Post-Dispatch ST. LOUIS — He had a stellar baseball career, a bulldog of a catcher who won two World Series with the Cardinals in the 1960s and played in three. He had an even more decorated run after his playing days ended, an unparalleled marathon as a network television analyst on the sport’s biggest stage before finishing with a stint in the Cards' TV booth.
McCarver was outspoken, not afraid to ruffle feathers and knew some viewers didn't like his commentary. But that didn't deter him from speaking his mind. And he could be blunt. In 1992 he was doused in the Braves' clubhouse with buckets of ice water by two-sport standout Deion Sanders, who was unhappy about critical comments McCarver had made about Sanders leaving the team during a playoff series to play in an NFL game.
“I would submit to you and I would bring it to any committee if they said, ‘What’s the best example of first-guessing in the history of sports broadcasting? I defy anybody to tell any analyst who has ever nailed a moment better than that in a key situation — Game 7 on the last pitch with Mariano Rivera blowing a World Series save. That’s just not going to happen.’’
“Coming back to St. Louis after starting there some 55 years ago is obviously special," he said then, in 2014."It’s fabulous, ... it’s wonderful.’’ “I truly believe that the games we did together were some of the best TV games that Cards TV has ever had," McLaughlin said."I really felt when he was added to the Cardinals games, it was important to bring him back into the family. ... It was important to me to draw on his enormous wealth of Cardinals knowledge and experiences and to bring it out in a light that maybe people weren’t accustomed to. I’m really proud that we did that and then some. I thought it was a special pairing.
Gibson once told Costas about what he said to McCarver when the catcher ventured to the mound for a consultation:
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