2013 Hall of Fame

(1915 – 1986)
Mahlon was born and raised in Jefferson City, Missouri. He was the son of a prominent surgeon. Mahlon was married to Bette Curran, also of Jefferson City, and the couple had two sons.
Mahlon’s career in broadcasting began by accident. He was working as reporter for the Jefferson City News-Tribune and, following his love of sports, officiating basketball games. In the late 1930’s,

(1914 – 1998)

Harry Caray was an American baseball broadcaster on radio and television. He covered four Major League Baseball teams, beginning with a long tenure calling the games of the St. Louis Cardinals, then the Oakland Athletics (for one year) and the Chicago White Sox (for eleven years), before ending his career as the announcer for the Chicago Cubs.
Caray was born Harry Christopher Carabina of Italian and Romanian parentage in one of the poorest sections of St.

(1926 -2016)

Garagiola was born in St. Louis, Missouri. He grew up on Elizabeth Avenue in an Italian-American neighborhood in St. Louis known as The Hill, just a few doors down from his childhood friend and competitor, Yogi Berra. (That block was subsequently renamed “Hall of Fame Place”.)
Garagiola was signed at age 16 by the St. Louis Cardinals organization. At 17 he remains the youngest player to play in Columbus Red Birds (now Columbus Clippers) history.

(1920 – 2015)

Ralph E. Meador was married to Thelma Meador for 65 years. Thelma died in 2005. They had two children, Randy Meador (wife Lynn) of Kansas City, Missouri and Carla Fritts, (husband Steve) of Louisville, Kentucky, five grandchildren and one great grandchild.
Ralph started his radio career in 1942 employed by the Federal Govemment in the Radio Laboratory at Wright Field in Dayton, Ohio as crew chief installing and testing radio and radar systems in military aircraft.

(1936 – 2013)

Ray Rouse was born in Boone County and grew up on a farm near Centralia. He developed an interest in electronics and broadcasting at an early age. During his Junior and Senior years in high school he worked part time as a DJ at radio station KXEO in Mexico. Later he worked as an engineer at KOMU-TV and a DJ at KFRU in Columbia.