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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 short...
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 ...
The Cardinals were dominant early in Musial's career. They beat DiMaggio and the Yankees in the 1942 World Series, lost to the Yankees the next year and defeated the St. Louis Browns in 1944. In 1946, the Cardinals beat Williams and the visiting Red Sox in Game 7 at Sportsman's Park....
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 ...