Musial

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Posnanski on Musial
Published 7/19/2008 by Rob Visconti at The Cheap Seats
One helluva writer musing on one helluva ballplayer.

Joe Posnanski Blog: Musial
Published 7/20/2008 at BBTF's Baseball Primer Newsblog
Joe Posnanski Blog: Musial My Stan Musial card from Challenge the Yankees . 2 Triple 3 FlyBall 4 Home Run 5 Strike Out 6 Ground Out 7 Single 8 Walk 9 Fly Ball 10 Single 11 Single 12 Double Here’s the thing: A lot of baseball fans have forgotten Stan Musial. Anyway, it seems like that. His name is rarely mentioned when people talk about the greatest living players. He’s never had a best selling book written about him. A few years ago, when baseball was picking its All Century team, Stan Musial did not even received enough votes to be listed among the Top 10 outfielders. ...

THT Live:A Musial remembrance
Published 7/20/2008 by Dave Studeman at THT Live
Joe P. has posted a classic remembrance of Stan Musial. Read it.

Joe knows Stan
Published 7/20/2008 by Deaner (noreply@blogger.com) at Cardinal Nation Globe
Did you know that Stan Musial NEVER got threw out of a game!? I didn't. Joe Posnanski, one of the great sportswriters in America, blogs on Stan the Man.

Musial's class is unmatched
Published 7/20/2008 by Deaner (noreply@blogger.com) at Blue Collar Baseball
Stan Musial is not only one of the great players in baseball history, he is also one of the great people of baseball. Musial is revered as much for his citizenship as for his baseball skills. Joe Posnanski blogs on Stan the Man and reveals the fact that he was NEVER thrown out of a game! ...

The Roundup: RIPPED FROM THE HEADLINES, NASCAR MURDER PLOT
Published 7/20/2008 by Patrick Imig at The Big Lead
... look at the Wonderlic Test and the Mario Manninghams who bomb them.  [Ben Fry] It was bound to happen: we now have an Olympics-Reference web site.  [Kottke] Senor Injury Rate is excited about the possibility of the dream fight between Emelianenko and Couture.  [Fan IQ] Marcus Camby feels rejected.  [Boston dot com] Nick Kaczur had 202 pills of oxycotin in his possession when he was arrested in April.  [Fanhouse]  Joe Posnanski on Stan Musial.  Worth a read to get an idea of how underappreciated Musial was and ...

The Roundup: Sean Avery, Wrestling Belts, Musial
Published 7/21/2008 by TheBigLead at The Big Lead
... of well-dressed ESPN writers. (Eagle in Atlanta) Sean Avery has conquered Vogue, so the next move, naturally, is scoring clothes from Marie Claire. (Page Six) Miami reaction to trading Jason Taylor. (Phins Insider) Baron Davis and Steve Nash on a bicycle built for two. (Sport Fiends) The man who makes wrestling belts. Cool read. (Arizona Daily Star) Imig mentioned, but it bears repeating: Stan Musial, good people. (Posnanski) Reggie Wayne didn’t feel like answering questions about ...

The Morning Tailgate
Published 7/21/2008 by Patrick Imig at STLSportsMag
... of first, it’s with great caution and a feeling that the bullpen will soon bite the Cards in the buttocks. Aaron Miles hits the 3rd walkoff grand slam for the Cardinals since 2005 in another hard fought victory.  [SI] Chris Carpenter goes four scoreless innings in Memphis, says he’s still not ready for the big club.  [STL Today] Kyle Lohse and the Cardinals have slim chances of reuninting after ‘08.  [Scout.com] Appreciating Stan Musial: he was never once thrown out of a game in his entire career.  [Joe ...

Daily Links - 7/21/08
Published 7/21/2008 by roarke (noreply@blogger.com) at Watching the Game
Stan Musial gets the Joe Posnanski (TBSWIA) treatment. It is well done, as always. Rick Ankiel version 2.0? I saw Adam Loewen pitch in Spring Training and he was lobbing up meatballs to the Cardinals (in fact, this picture I took of Albert Pujols crushing a homer off of him is the wallpaper on my computer). One of the great arguments in baseball is about who deserves to be in the Hall of Fame. I am of the opinion that the Hall of Fame should be reserved for the greatest of the great and guys like Gary Carter, Bruce Sutter, Andre Dawson and Jim Rice ...

Baseball's Perfect Knight
Published 7/21/2008 by noreply@blogger.com (FrostKing) at Frost King Baseball
... second four other times. He was a 20 time All-Star. Musial won 7 batting titles; hit 475 career home runs, but also lead the league in doubles 8 times and triples 5 times; and just for good measure he had over twice as many walks as strike-outs. His nickname says it all; he was Stan “The Man”. (And that was given to him by opposing fans.) Beyond his exemplary baseball accomplishments, Musial was, by all accounts, one of the classiest players to ever grace a field. This is a great story recounted by Joe Posnanski:“There was this game, in ‘52, that year the Today Show came to ...

Weekend Links with Jon Marthaler
Published 7/26/2008 by Michael Rand at Randball
... , along with a companion 2,500 words about why Stan Musial was one of the greatest ever to play the game — and why he tends to be forgotten in debates about the same. And just to top it off, he recounts the ...

Clip Job: Must sees, must reads
Published 8/20/2008 by Derrick Goold at Bird Land » Bird Land
... Simple titled, “Musial”: “… Stan Musial never got thrown out of a game. Never. Think about this for a moment. Musial played in 3,026 games in his career, or about as many as his contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky played combined. He played across different American eras - he played in the big leagues before bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, and he retired a few weeks before Kennedy was shot.” ...