| Title | : | Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man (MISSOURI BIOGRAPHY SERIES) |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.83 (627 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0826217354 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2001-03-01 |
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In the most comprehensive assessment of baseball legend Stan Musial's life and career to date, James N. Giglio places the St. Louis Cardinal star within the context of the times-the Great Depression and wartime and postwar America-and the issues then prevalent in professional baseball, particularly race and the changing economics of the game. Giglio illuminates how the times shaped Musial and delves further into his popular image as a warm, unfailingly gracious role model known for good sportsmanship and devotion to family.
Editorial : From Library Journal At Stan Musial's retirement ceremony, former baseball commissioner Ford Frick called the Cardinal standout "baseball's perfect warriorbaseball's perfect knight." That was a reasonable assessment of a man who was a career .331 hitter with some pop (and a single-season high of 39 home runs); who tirelessly signed autographs; who carefully concealed his occasional smoking, drinking, and off-color storytelling not to market an image but because he realized that he was a role model; and who took voluntary pay cuts in his declining years. Yet because of his low-key style and because he spent all of his 22-year career with St. Louis, a city that was away from the media glare and that for more than the last decade of his career failed to field a championship-caliber team, Musial usually took a back seat to such contemporaries as the prince of cool, Joe DiMaggio, and the controversial, sometimes obstreperous Ted Williams. And so it will probably be with historian Giglio's b
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