St. Louis Style for McCarver's Ceremony Tim McCarver will receive the Ford C. Frick Award for broadcasting next Saturday in Cooperstown, N.Y., a day before Barry Larkin and Ron Santo are inducted to the Hall Fame. McCarver's ceremony will have a St. Louis flavor, with three World Series-winning Cardinals managers - Red Schoendienst, Whitey Herzog and Tony La Russa - also being recognized. McCarver played in three World Series for St. Louis, winning two, and his former team was on the field for his first game as a broadcaster, in 1985. He said he took two lessons from that experience. The first was that it was easier to be on the field for a World Series than in a broadcast booth, where he had to organize his thoughts and could not influence the outcome. The second was that he was no longer invested in the outcome. All McCarver wanted in 1985, he said, was for the Series to last seven games - which it did, with Kansas City winning. "I was being paid by the game, and if it went seven, I could take my wife to St. Barts," McCarver said. I had never been to St. Bart's, and so it went seven games. The Cardinals lost, but I'm an announcer. It's not my fault!