A Sept. 28 Sports article incorrectly identified Frank Absher as a journalism instructor at the University of Missouri at St. Louis. He is an instructor at St. Louis University.
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In the end, he said. "it was a little bit melancholy but you move on."
Instead, St. Louis, exploded. Fingers pointed everywhere: at the New York owners of the station who didn't understand the world of Bob Hyland, at the Cardinals owners who certainly weren't Gussie Busch.
"The catalyst is greed," said Curt Smith, the author. "What it does is put more moolah into the pockets of multimillionaire baseball owners."
"If we tried to do this 10-15 years ago this never would have happened -- never, ever," says Dorsey, the man who got the Cardinals for KTRS but who was also a Hyland protégée at KMOX.
But it did and sitting in his St. Louis office, Costas pondered the ramifications of the move, of the end of the Cardinals on the station he loved so dearly.
"Although I have as much of a feeling for this as anyone, I'm not thinking this is the end of the world because the world has changed significantly," he said. "Virtually every Cardinal game is on television. The primacy of radio has been diminished. So many of the great names of KMOX have passed away."
A few weeks ago, perhaps as a tribute, perhaps in a fit of nostalgia, KMOX began replaying old Cardinals games late at night. The really big ones, the ones everyone remembers. And so it happened one recent night that Game 5 of the 1985 NLCS was on the radio. And Jack Buck was alive again and here it was the ninth inning and Ozzie Smith was coming to bat against an unfortunate reliever named Tom Niedenfuer and suddenly Buck began to scream, his throaty voice tumbling like a cement mixer.
"Ozzie corks one into right . . . down the line . . . it may go . . . Go crazy, folks! Go crazy!"
