It's floating around you-Brooklyn seeing That Man again, a superstar going 3000 games without getting thrown out of one, an obvious Hall of Famer, his reputation secure, hustling and competing until he was 42. It's not like any one person has to sit you down and tell you about his exploits you'll just know, eventually. He was the guy whose name people mentioned when I asked, half-aware of baseball, whether this Ozzie Smith guy was the best Cardinal ever or not.īut you can't be a Cardinals fan and remain ignorant of Stan Musial for long. The first time I saw him he was a giant, slightly ridiculous Soviet-realist statue at the front of Busch Stadium with weirdly broad shoulders. Louis Cardinals fan under the age of 47 has never been inside the stadium where Stan Musial played baseball.
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