Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man is the most comprehensive
assessment of baseball legend Stan Musial's life and career to
date. Musial, better known as Stan the Man, was born Stanislaus
Frank Musial in 1920 to Polish immigrants in Donora, Pennsylvania.
As a youth, however, he went by the nickname Stashu, soon shortened
to Stash, which his closest friends have continued to call him. In
this first scholarly biography of Musial, 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 seeks to illuminate how the
times shaped Musial and to delve further into his popular image as
a warm, unfailingly gracious role model known for good
sportsmanship and devotion to family. One of America's most popular
professional athletes, Musial began his baseball career in 1938 as
a minor league pitcher, switching to the outfield after he injured
his arm. He began playing for the Cardinals in 1941, and in his
twenty-two-year career with them (1941 to 1963, with an
interruption for military service during World War II), he
established himself as one of the game's greatest hitters, with a
lifetime batting average of.331. He held major league records for
extra-base hits and total bases. He also held National League
records for games played, consecutive games played, times at bat,
runs scored, runs batted in, and hits. Musial retired from the
playing field in 1963, but returned as general manager of the
Cardinals in 1967, a year in which his team won the World Series.
In 1969, he was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame. Through
extensive research in newspapers, the Musial collection at the
Baseball Hall of Fame Library, the Sporting News Archives, and
manuscript collections at the Lyndon B. Johnson and John F. Kennedy
libraries, along with in-depth interviews, Giglio has provided the
real story of Stan Musial as not only a baseball hero, but also a
youth, a young man, a husband, and a father - a regular guy.
Baseball fans everywhere will join with diehard Cardinal fans in
welcoming this well-crafted and compelling biography of Stan the
Man.
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