Honored For Dedication To Baseball
Kissell received numerous honors for his work in baseball, including induction into the Missouri Sports Hall of Fame in 2003. In recognition for his years of service to the game, Kissell received the King of Baseball award in 1993 from minor league baseball. In addition, the Cardinals' spring training clubhouse in Jupiter, Florida was named after him during spring training in 2005. The Cardinals organization annually honors a minor league coach with the George Kissell award.
In the middle of his long career as a minor league manager and farm system official, Kissell spent seven seasons with the Major League Cardinals (1969β1975) as a third-base coach on the staff of skipper Red Schoendienst. In his final decades with St. Louis, he served as field coordinator of system-wide instruction, then senior field coordinator. Said former Cardinal manager Whitey Herzog in 2005, βHe is one of those baseball lifers that loves to talk baseball ... George Kissell is the only man I know who can talk for 15 minutes about a ground ball.β
At the age of 88, Kissell died one day after sustaining injuries in a car accident in Pinellas Park, Florida.
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