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- Updated: August 6, 2016
ST. LOUIS — Braves interim manager Brian Snitker grew up in Macon, Ill., a small town home to fewer than 2,000 people located in the middle of the state.
It’s roughly a two-hour drive from Busch Stadium, where the Braves will face the Cardinals over the next three days, a place that fits the population of Macon inside of it over 22 times. Though he grew up rooting for the Cubs due to his dad’s fandom, Snitker holds fond memories of St. Louis as well.
“This is where we would come,” Snitker said. “My dad and uncles, we’d bring everybody. We’d park the car in one of the garages and we’d walk across the catwalk to old Busch Stadium. Mom would make chicken and we’d tailgate and then come to the game. It was great.”
His time in St. Louis has clearly left a mark, but it’s his fabled 1971 Macon High School Ironmen who will go down in …
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