Stan Musial passed away

[Northern Star]

Per Yahoo.

 

RIP

 

http://espn.go.com/mlb/story/_/id/8860690/st-louis-cardinals-hall-famer-stan-musial-dies-age-92

[a700hitter]

RIP. One of the giants of the game and by all accounts he was one of the good guys.

[a700hitter]

I think at the time Stan the Man died he owned every NL hitting record. Joe Garagiola used to tell some great stories about Stan the Man. When asked about hitting the spitter, Stan the Man replied, "I just hit the dry side".

 

The author of the last biography of Musial said that he had been a fan of Musial during his playing days, but when he wrote the book he expected to lose some of his admiration for him. With all of the other subjects of his books he had always learned about the non public side which usually wasn't very flattering. His admiration for his subjects always decreased while researching them. Musial was the only subject that he came to admire more after researching him. He said in his book that he had a lot of difficulty finding anyone who had anything negative to say about Musial. One of the few people with which he had a disagreement late in life was Garagiola. The disagreement was over a business venture.

 

It think he has the distinction of being the only player to be inducted into the Hall of Fame of an opposing team. The Brooklyn Dodgers inducted him into their Hall of Fame. That's the kind of people that Brooklyn Dodger fans were. If you beat them, but we're great they would acknowledge you as long as you were not a Giant.

[Emmz]

He doesn't get half of the respect he deserves. He's one of the best ever, and he really never gets talked about like DiMaggio or Williams. He was on their level, though.

 

RIP Stan The Man.

[a700hitter]

In 22 major league seasons, he never struck out 50 times in any season, yet he hit 475 HRs in his career. That is pretty remarkable.

[Behindenemylines]

He is to St. Louis what Teddy Ballgame is to Boston. When you think of great all time Cardinals the list starts below Musial. RIP.

[a700hitter]

His former teammate and great friend Joe Garagiola once said, “He could have hit .300 with a fountain pen

[a700hitter]

1,815 hits at home 1,815 hits on the road.

[who]

Bad day for baseball legends.

[Porcupine penis]

R.I.P to a truly great man and player.

[TeddyBallGame9]

I don't think one could ever meet a finer ball player and person all rolled into one.

 

May God bless this fine man and his family.

 

I'll always wonder how high he would have been ranked had he played for the Yankees.