He was merely the most consistent superstar of his era, a scarily gifted batsman who compiled 3,630 career hits (1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road), won three World Series titles, and retired in 1963 in possession of seventeen major-league records. There were no legendary displays of temper or moodiness. He didn’t die young, live too hard, or squander his talent. More than just a chronological recounting of the events of Musial’s life, this is the definitive portrait of one of the game’s best-loved but most unappreciated legends, told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered “Stan the Man” over the course of his nearly seventy years in the national spotlight. Louis Cardinals icon the kind of prestigious biographical treatment previously afforded to his more celebrated contemporaries Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. In Stan Musial, veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. This glaring omission-later rectified by a panel of experts-raised an important How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most underrated athlete of all time? When baseball fans voted on the top twenty-five players of the twentieth century in 1999, Stan Musial didn’t make the cut.
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