RIP Tim McCarver

[Booth]

Tim McCarver passed away today at the age of 81. He was an all-star catcher with the Cardinals. After retiring from baseball, he became an excellent analyst for the Cardinals.

Tim McCarver, former MLB star and Hall of Fame broadcaster, dead at 81

Tim McCarver, who spent 21 years as a MLB catcher from 1959 to 1980, has died at 81, the National Baseball Hall of Fame announced Thursday. McCarver was a Hall of Fame broadcaster after his career.

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[sport historian]

I saw him play in person for the Cardinals once. Best known for being the catcher for the 60s Cardinal pitching staff, Tim McCarver's biggest hit was a three run homer that gave the Cardinals a victory in the fifth game of the 1964 World Series.

 

[Don Wassall]

McCarver had a 21 year MLB career, extremely long for a catcher (he's one of the few at any position to have played in the majors in four different decades), and had a very long broadcasting career as well, beginning in 1978 while he was still playing and lasting till 2017. So that's just short of 60 years that McCarver was either a player or broadcaster, pretty remarkable.

Although it was long ago flushed down the system's memory hole, I'll always remember Deion Sanders throwing a bucket of ice water on McCarver because Tim upset Sanders' snowflake feelings. McCarver verbally confronted him afterward, but he should have gone after him physically as Sanders showed by the way he ran away after throwing the water that he's a coward. Even if he wasn't, McCarver shouldn't have taken it.

 

[Flint]

McCarver had a 21 year MLB career, extremely long for a catcher (he's one of the few to have played in the majors in four different decades), and had a very long broadcasting career as well, beginning in 1978 while he was still playing and lasting till 2017. So that's just short of 60 years that McCarver was either a player or broadcaster, pretty remarkable.

Although it was long ago flushed down the system's memory hole, I'll always remember Deion Sanders throwing a bucket of ice water on McCarver because Tim upset Sanders' snowflake feelings. McCarver verbally confronted him afterward, but he should have gone after him physically as Sanders showed by the way he ran away after throwing the water that he's a coward. Even if he wasn't, McCarver shouldn't have taken it.

He should have taken a bat to Sanders’s head.
But McCarver was a class act, and Sander’s knew that. Maybe some day the class act’s will start striking back.

McCarver was a very good hitting catcher in an era where any average over .200 was good for a catcher. He was the best of NL catchers until Johnny Bench.