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Missouri Mailbag asks: Which Show-Me State athlete would be a great governor?

St. Louis Cardinals’ Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith waves to the crowd on Thursday, March 30, 2023, during Opening Day pregame festivities at Busch Stadium.
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St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame shortstop Ozzie Smith waves to the crowd in March 2023 during Opening Day festivities at Busch Stadium.

On the latest episode of © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ’s Missouri Mailbag, STLPR’s Jason Rosenbaum poses a zany hypothetical question: Which Show-Me State athlete should be Missouri’s governor and why?

This query, inspired partly by the Missouri General Assembly’s special session that includes funding for professional sports stadiums, spurred a lot of responses. Listeners nominated some prominent Missouri athletes who could win a political race in a landslide but would likely rather be revered, retired and rich than accountable to the state’s voters.

Rosenbaum also recounts in Hermann possibly altered the course of Missouri political history:

Jason is the politics correspondent for © 2024 ÍâÍøÌìÌÃ.