Bob Costas called Bob Starr “the greatest football announcer I’ve ever heard.”
“He was a good baseball announcer, but a great football announcer,” Costas told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch in 1998.
Starr was hired by KMOX radio in 1972 to become the radio voice of the Big Red and Missouri Tigers, a job he would hold until 1979. He later became the busiest broadcaster in town when he was hired by the baseball Cardinals to replace Jack Buck, who briefly left the team to host a studio show on NBC.
St. Louis lost a broadcasting icon in 2017 when pioneering sportscaster Bill Wilkerson passed away at the age of 72.
Wilkerson’s career spanned over 4 decades and is most remembered for his work at KMOX radio where he got his start and made his name.
Big Red fans remember Bill calling Cardinals games starting in 1973 and continuing until the team left in 1987. He also served as color commentator for the baseball Cardinals, St. Louis Blues, St. Louis Spirits basketball, and was the longtime play by play voice of the Missouri Tigers.
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