At the end of the last baseball season, Tim McCarver wasn’t sure if he wanted to do another year of broadcasting — something he has been doing since retiring in 1980 after 21 big-league seasons as a player.
The former catcher, who was about to turn 77, was unsure if he wanted to come back for a sixth season for a limited schedule of Cardinals games for Fox Sports Midwest. That’s a role he has filled following his record-setting 34-year run at the network level in which he was the lead analyst for the sport’s marquee events.
“Whether I feel good, whether I feel up to it,” would play a big role in a decision, provided the team and FSM wanted to rehire him, he said then.