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<blockquote data-quote="pruman91" data-source="post: 1795027" data-attributes="member: 3916"><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/hall-of-fame-cardinals-writer-rick-hummel-retiring-from-post-dispatch-after-51-years/article_57651d6e-14b3-5c07-bdb6-b13fb0dda231.html[/URL]</p><p></p><p><a href="https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dcaesar" target="_blank">Dan Caesar</a></p><p>It's the end of the line for Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina and maybe Adam Wainwright. But there's another fellow who is closely associated with the Cardinals — and for a period much longer than any of those players even has been alive — who this weekend also will be on the job at a Cards home regular-season series for the final time.</p><p>Rick Hummel, who is in his 50th season writing about the team and his 51st year at the Post-Dispatch, plans to step down from full-time duties at the paper in the offseason. That will be not long before he turns 77 in February.</p><p>That's when spring training begins, and while Hummel might go there as an occasional contributor to the P-D, he will be out of the regular mix for the first time since before he had his initial Cardinals assignment in 1973. Five years later, he took over the beat full time.</p><p></p><p>He remained on it through the 2001 season before becoming the paper's national baseball writer — not by his choice. But he later returned to a role that focuses on the Cardinals, though as the backup to Joe Strauss and now Derrick Goold.</p><p>His current position calls for him to often do stories ancillary to game coverage, but he is the "lead ballwriter" (writing the game stories) for some contests and will be in that role this weekend when the Pirates play at Busch. It will be his final time in that slot, as Goold will cover the team's season-ending trip to Pittsburgh next week. Goold also will have the "gamer" writing duties during the postseason, during which Hummel will cover other angles. </p><p>Will it seem strange on Sunday to walk into the Busch Stadium pressbox — which is named for him and one of his mentors, former Post-Dispatch baseball writer and sports editor Bob Broeg — for the last time to handle the game-writing duties? </p><p></p><p>"I don’t think it will," said Hummel, who has covered 42 All-Star Games and 35 World Series and was inducted into the writers portion of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. "It’s more likely to hit when I'm not covering the first game next year. There probably won’t be any difference until you get to next season."</p><p></p><p>-----------------------------------------------------------------------</p><p></p><p>I always enjoyed reading Hummel and Bob Broeg ..........................They were required reading before the advent of the internet and instantaneous info.....</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="pruman91, post: 1795027, member: 3916"] [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/hall-of-fame-cardinals-writer-rick-hummel-retiring-from-post-dispatch-after-51-years/article_57651d6e-14b3-5c07-bdb6-b13fb0dda231.html[/URL] [URL='https://www.stltoday.com/users/profile/dcaesar']Dan Caesar[/URL] It's the end of the line for Albert Pujols, Yadier Molina and maybe Adam Wainwright. But there's another fellow who is closely associated with the Cardinals — and for a period much longer than any of those players even has been alive — who this weekend also will be on the job at a Cards home regular-season series for the final time. Rick Hummel, who is in his 50th season writing about the team and his 51st year at the Post-Dispatch, plans to step down from full-time duties at the paper in the offseason. That will be not long before he turns 77 in February. That's when spring training begins, and while Hummel might go there as an occasional contributor to the P-D, he will be out of the regular mix for the first time since before he had his initial Cardinals assignment in 1973. Five years later, he took over the beat full time. He remained on it through the 2001 season before becoming the paper's national baseball writer — not by his choice. But he later returned to a role that focuses on the Cardinals, though as the backup to Joe Strauss and now Derrick Goold. His current position calls for him to often do stories ancillary to game coverage, but he is the "lead ballwriter" (writing the game stories) for some contests and will be in that role this weekend when the Pirates play at Busch. It will be his final time in that slot, as Goold will cover the team's season-ending trip to Pittsburgh next week. Goold also will have the "gamer" writing duties during the postseason, during which Hummel will cover other angles. Will it seem strange on Sunday to walk into the Busch Stadium pressbox — which is named for him and one of his mentors, former Post-Dispatch baseball writer and sports editor Bob Broeg — for the last time to handle the game-writing duties? "I don’t think it will," said Hummel, who has covered 42 All-Star Games and 35 World Series and was inducted into the writers portion of the Baseball Hall of Fame in 2007. "It’s more likely to hit when I'm not covering the first game next year. There probably won’t be any difference until you get to next season." ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I always enjoyed reading Hummel and Bob Broeg ..........................They were required reading before the advent of the internet and instantaneous info..... [/QUOTE]
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