Jack Buck

Historical marker location:

3861 East Stan Musial Drive, Springfield, Missouri

( Marker is on Stan Musial Drive south of U.S. 60, on the right when traveling west.)

Marker installed: 2000

The "Show-Me State" is Missouri's official nickname and is believed to have originated from a speech given by Congressman Willard Duncan Vandiver in 1899. He said, "I come from a state that raises corn and cotton and cockleburs and Democrats, and frothy eloquence neither convinces nor satisfies me. I am from Missouri. You have got to show me."