![]() By then, however, he had earned a reputation as a fearsome batter.įormer St. ![]() After hurting his left shoulder while trying to make a diving catch, he was finished as a pitcher. Musial saved himself by taking over for an injured outfielder and hitting impressively. Pitching in a low-level minor league, he struck out roughly a batter per inning but walked almost as many, and one of his managers recommended that the young left-hander be let go. Musial signed a contract paying him $65 a month. He recalled learning to hit “with a broomstick and a ball of tape.” As a pitcher for mill teams and Donora High School, he caught the eye of a Cardinals scout. 21, 1920, in Donora, Pa., a mill town south of Pittsburgh. Of Polish and Czech extraction, Stanley Frank Musial was born Nov. Musial retired in 1963 with so many firsts to his credit that he may have carved out a new category: the record for holding the most records at one time. After spending the entirety of his 22-year career with the Cardinals, Mr. 331, his total of 3,630 hits ranks fourth all-time, and he was a perennial all-star. Musial led the National League in batting seven times in the 1940s and ’50s and was voted the league's most valuable player three times. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that he had Alzheimer’s disease. ![]() Stan “The Man” Musial, one of major league baseball’s most prolific hitters and a model of good sportsmanship during his Hall of Fame career with the St. ![]()
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