Hall of Fame baseball writer Rick Hummel passes away at 77.

Rick Hummel, a Hall of Fame baseball writer known as "The Commish," died at the age of 77 after a short, aggressive illness. Hummel covered baseball for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch for five decades, chronicling the Cardinals' three most recent World Series championships, six MVP seasons, 11 managers, and seven National League pennants. He received the Baseball Writers' Association of America Career Excellence Award in 2006 and was inducted into the writers' wing at the National Baseball Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y. Hummel was universally regarded as trustworthy and excelled as a baseball writer even as the job shifted from meeting nightly deadlines for the next day's paper to juggling constant deadlines for STLToday.com.