Editor's note: All this week, we'll be celebrating the 50-year career of Hall of Fame sportswriter Rick Hummel, who joined the Post-Dispatch on July 3, 1971.
His first assignment here was covering a bicycling race at Penrose Park.
Commish covered his first Cardinals game in 1973, his first World Series in 1977 and became the lead Cardinals beat writer in 1978. Here's the original report on that game, from June 19, 1973.
It will not be recorded as a Ruthian blast. Henry Aaron would have yawned. But without Mike Tyson's first major league home run, the Cardinals wouldn't have beaten the rain or the Montreal Expos last night.