Stan Musial was born November 21, 1920, in the western Pennsylvania town of Donora. The book follows Musial from childhood poverty in the depression to the time of the book's writing. His immigrant father called him by the Polish nickname Stashu, which was shorte...
Brooklynites had another reason to think well of Musial: Unlike Enos Slaughter and other Cardinal teammates, he was supportive when the Dodgers' Jackie Robinson broke baseball's color barrier in 1947. Bob Gibson, who started out with the Cardinals in the late 1950s, would recall how Musial ha...
A thoroughly decent man, he had endeared himself to hundreds of thousands of individuals, by both his hitting and his downto-earth approachability. Even the fans in Brooklyn's Ebbets Field were admiring. They gave him the nickname "Stan the Man."Like many in his generation, Musial served ...
They gave him the nickname "Stan the Man."Like many in his generation, Musial served in World War II, though he missed only one season of baseball. At the time, he was registered with the draft board in Donora, and plenty of other able-bodied males were available to meet the calls ...