Administrator, Baseball Information & Media Services
Chris Tunno enters his 10th full season working for the St. Louis Cardinals and 18th overall in the field of media relations and communications.
Tunno has worked seven Major League Baseball postseasons, three World Series (2004, 2011, 2013), five League Championship Series and 79 total playoff games. He also worked six All-Star Games (St. Louis, 2009; Arizona 2011; Kansas City 2012, Minnesota 2014, Cincinnati 2015, Washington D.C. 2018) assisting Major League Baseball and Tony La Russa's field staff in Kansas City and Mike Matheny's staff in Minnesota.
Tunno is the designated contact for media credentials for the St. Louis Cardinals covering the regular season as well as Spring Training and the post-season, working with Major League Baseball in all aspects of their policies. He also writes over half the player bios in the Cardinals annual media guide.
Tunno works closely with the St. Louis print media as well as their television and radio broadcasting teams, writing game notes, preparing daily statistical information, researching post-game notes, distributing timely statistical information to the broadcast team for the Cardinals, setting up and coordinating interviews with players, coaches and front office staff and acts as the Cardinals liaison between Major League Baseball Umpires and the media when they come to Busch Stadium. He travels with the team on road trips and in the post-season.
His career began as Media Relations Intern for the Daytona Cubs of the Florida State League. After three years of working in college athletics, he returned to professional baseball as a Baseball Operations Intern with the New York Yankees in Spring Training of 2002. Over the next seven years, Tunno was involved in various roles in the minor and majors with five different Major League organizations including the Cardinals, Yankees, Athletics, Marlins and Cubs. His start with the Cardinals began as the press box intern at the Spring Training facility in Jupiter at Roger Dean Stadium, where he was the initial media relations contact for the Palm Beach Cardinals in their inaugural season in 2003.
His collegiate experience before entering professional baseball was as the Assistant Sports Information Director at the University of Central Florida as the main baseball contact while covering for a variety of sports, including football and men's basketball. The Knights achieved, at the time, their highest ranking in school and conference history coming in at No. 7 in 2001, while achieving the No. 1 seed in the Columbia (SC) Regional. The team boasted six All-Americans and the first CoSIDA Academic All-Star in UCF history.
Tunno began his undergrad studies at Indiana University before transferring to Stetson University where he achieved a B.A. in Sports Communications with a minor in Sports Administration. He gained experience working in the Stetson University Sports Information Department as a student assistant for three years working primarily with the nationally-ranked baseball program, men and women's soccer team and helped promote the softball team to Major Sport status which led to full scholarships and an on-campus stadium. While at Stetson, he worked on the StatCrew for the 1999 NCAA Men's Basketball First and Second Round Tournament in Orlando. He also freelanced tournaments for Disney's Wide World of Sports Stats Crew and continues to help while in St. Louis in the same role for Saint Louis University and ESPN/SEC Network broadcasts.
He has played roles in the opening of two college baseball stadiums with Melching Field at Conrad Park at Stetson on Feb. 12, 1999 and Jay Bergman Field at UCF on Feb. 3, 2001.