Stan Musial On SI Cover

[sport historian]

St. Louis Cardinal hall of famer Stan Musial is on the cover of this week's Sports Illustrated. There is a good story inside.

 

[Europe]

What is that documentary called that features MLB from the 30' to the 40's? The Glory Years or something like that. Just looking at those all white teams is amazing. There were a few blacks coming in the late 40's and into the 50's,but still not many.What a time to watch baseball.

 

[Don Wassall]

Stan Musial has been greatly underappreciated since he retired from baseball. It takes a fairly hard-core fan now to know that Stan The Man ranks 4th on the all time hits list, 6th on the all time RBIs list, 9th all time in runs scored, andonly Ted Williams (.344) and Tony Gwynn (.338) among post-WWII players finished with a better lifetime batting average than Musial's .331.

Musialshouldbe celebrated in his last yearsthe wayTed Williams was. Glad to find out SI has a tribute to him but those have been few and far between. Every young baseball fan has heard of Willie Mays but how many have heard of Stan Musial? I can't remember ever reading anything negative about Musial; maybe that's why the Cultural Marxist media has mostly ignored him since he retired after the 1963 season as there was nothing to continuallysmear hisreputation with as there was with Williams (grumpy and distant), Ty Cobb (horrible "racist"), Babe Ruth (hotdogs, booze and broads), and Mickey Mantle (booze and broads).Edited by: Don Wassall

 

[sport historian]

Stan Musial has been greatly underappreciated since he retired from baseball.  It takes a fairly hard-core fan now to know that Stan The Man ranks 4th on the all time hits list, 6th on the all time RBIs list, 9th all time in runs scored, and only Ted Williams (.344) and Tony Gwynn (.338) among post-WWII players finished with a better lifetime batting average than Musial's .331. 
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<div>Musial should be celebrated in his last years the way Ted Williams was.  Glad to find out SI has a tribute to him but those have been few and far between.  Every young baseball fan has heard of Willie Mays but how many have heard of Stan Musial?  I can't remember ever reading anything negative about Musial; maybe that's why the Cultural Marxist media has mostly ignored him since he retired after the 1963 season as there was nothing to continually smear his reputation with as there was with Williams (grumpy and distant), Ty Cobb (horrible "racist"), Babe Ruth (hotdogs, booze and broads), and Mickey Mantle (booze and broads).</div>

The SI article makes some of these points. Musial has been married to his high school sweetheart for 70 years and has never been controversial. Literally everyone has always praised him as the nicest baseball superstar of all time.

It could be that if Stan Musial had gotten into trouble, the media would have then given him plenty of attention.

Several years ago, on an ESPN Sportcentury piece on Musial, the question was asked as to why he had been forgotten. Jack Buck, the late long-time announcer, said that Musial believes there is an "east coat bias."

 

[Claimjumper]

Stan Musial has died at the age of 92

 

[Don Wassall]

RIP Stan Musial, one of the greatest baseball players of all time and always a gentleman off the field.

 

[Liverlips]

R.I.P.

 

[white is right]

R.I.P.

Sad news he was the elder statesman of baseball. Earl Weaver also died today.

 

[white is right]

What is that documentary called that features MLB from the 30' to the 40's? The Glory Years or something like that. Just looking at those all white teams is amazing. There were a few blacks coming in the late 40's and into the 50's,but still not many.What a time to watch baseball.

Ken Burns made a mini series about the history of baseball. It started from amateur teams in the mid 19th century to the late 90's.

 

[knightedsoldier5000]

The MSM article I read about his passing went on and on about how much he loved ******** and how he helped the ****** feel comfortable when integration was starting. This, according to the MSM, is the true measure of a man's worth - how much did he love ******.

http://msn.foxsports.com/mlb/story/stan-musial-the-man-dies-st-louis-cardinals-at-92-01913

Brooklynites had another reason to think well of Musial: Unlike Enos Slaughter and other Cardinals 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 had helped established a warm atmosphere between blacks and whites on the team. "I knew Stan very well," Mays said. "He used to take care of me at All-Star Games, 24 of them. He was a true gentleman who understood the race thing and did all he could."