Stan Musial was so beloved not because he was the perfect Cardinal, but because he invented the Cardinals.
Minus a temper like Reggie Jackson, a poker face like Joe DiMaggio and a whacky streak like Dizzy Dean, I can't remember anyone always saying anything terrible about Hall of Famer Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals. His death on Saturday unlocked a
Whitey Herzog remembers Stan Musial. Whitey Herzog shares a fun tale about how Stan Musial 'ruined' his career, just by being a consistently fantastic player. Post to Facebook. Whitey Herzog remembers Stan Musial on USAToday.com: http://usat.ly/Vfb1hJ
To generations of baseball fans, he was simply “Stan the Man.”Stan Musial, a legendary slugger for the St. Louis Cardinals who came to embody one of the sport's most successful.
It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by Life magazine as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955. These were the late years of DiMaggio and Feller, the time of Williams and Robinson, the
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