Stan Musial
Stan Musial
Stanley Frank "Stan" Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American Major League Baseballoutfielder and first baseman. He spent 22 seasons playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1963. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, and was also selected to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1920
CityDonora, PA
CountryUnited States of America
I have no hesitation to say that St. Louis is a great place in which to live and work.
When we played the Dodgers in St. Louis, they had to come through our dugout, and our bat rack was right there where they had to walk. My bats kept disappearing, and I couldn't figure it out. Turns out, Pee Wee Reese was stealing my bats. I found that out later, after we got out of baseball. He and Rube Walker stole my bats.
I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.
When a pitcher's throwing a spitball, don't worry and don't complain, just hit the dry side like I do.
I could always hit. I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.
The key to hitting for high average is to relax, concentrate, and don't hit the fly ball to center field.
I never realized that batting a little ball around could cause so much commotion. I now know how (Charles) Lindbergh must have felt when he returned from St. Louis.
There is no one correct way to bat, and so of course there is no one correct stance for it.
There was never a day when I was as good as Joe DiMaggio at his best. Joe was the best, the very best I ever saw.
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
Back in my day, we didn't think about money as much. We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn't think about anybody else but the Cardinals.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.