Louis Cardinals fans and writers have been lucky enough to be in the Stan Musial business full-time for something like 70 years. It's hard to say anything about Stan Musial, who died Saturday at 92, in part because everyone's said something about him. So long as we think and talk about the Cardinals as some ideal, we're really thinking and talking about Stan Musial-Stan The Man, Stan the good guy. I don't think that'll change, just like I don't think anyone will make a dent in his collection of team records.
An old man in a red blazer playing the harmonica and telling modest jokes about his knees. It's floating around you-Brooklyn seeing That Man again, a superstar going 3000 games without getting thrown out of one, an obvious Hall of Famer, his reputation secure, hustling and competing until he was 42. It's not like any one person has to sit you down and tell you about his exploits you'll just know, eventually. He was the guy whose name people mentioned when I asked, half-aware of baseball, whether this Ozzie Smith guy was the best Cardinal ever or not.īut you can't be a Cardinals fan and remain ignorant of Stan Musial for long. The first time I saw him he was a giant, slightly ridiculous Soviet-realist statue at the front of Busch Stadium with weirdly broad shoulders. Louis Cardinals fan under the age of 47 has never been inside the stadium where Stan Musial played baseball. The feat has been matched only once since, in 1972, by Nate Colbert.Every St. Stan Musial Miscellaneous Items of Interestģ: Stan Musial finished the 1948 season leading all major league players in batting average (.376 | 43-points ahead of second place in the senior circuit), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18), total bases (429), and slugging percentage (.702), capturing his third Most Valuable Player Award, the first National League player to ever win three MVPs!ĥ: Stan Musial hit three home runs in game one of a doubleheader on May 2, 1954, then two more in game two, the first player in baseball history to collect five home runs in a doubleheader.
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