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John Rooney is returning for his 4th season as Mike Shannon's partner in the Cardinals radio booth on the BIG 550 KTRS. Rooney, a Richmond, Mo., native joined KTRS from the World Champion Chicago White Sox where he spent his 19 years - one year for TV and the last 18 seasons in the radio booth. Rooney called his first major league game in 1983 with Shannon and Hall of Fame Broadcaster Jack Buck during a three-game series between the Cardinals and host Cincinnati Reds.

Rooney began his baseball broadcasting career at the class AAA level, spending the 1981-82 seasons with the Oklahoma 89ers and the 1983-84 campaigns with the Louisville Redbirds. John also called University of Missouri basketball games for 20 seasons.

Rooney was inducted into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in February 2004. He and his wife, Susan, have two daughters, Colleen and Rachel.

Mike Shannon is a baseball treasure when it comes to play-by-play on radio.
A St. Louis native, Shannon broke into the big leagues with the Cardinals in 1962 and became the Cardinals' regular right fielder during the 1964 World Championship season.

During the 1964 Series opener vs. New York, Shannon hit a game-tying, two-run homer off Whitey Ford as St. Louis went on to defeat the Yankees in seven games. In 1967 Shannon was moved to third base to make room for newly acquired right fielder Roger Maris, as the Cardinals went on to win two straight National League pennants in 1967 and '68 as well as the 1967 World Series. His home run off Boston's Gary Bell was the key blow in Game 3 of the 1967 Series and his solo shot in Game 7 of the 1968 Series was the Cardinals only run off Mickey Lolich as the Tigers clinched.

He entered the broadcast booth in 1972, and is often imitated, but never duplicated.