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...Cardinals, including Manager Eddie Dyer, would rather have Musial; others might outrun him on a straightaway but not around the bases. Slaughter has slowed down this year...
Pasquel offered him $75,000 cash to sign (and double the salary he was getting with the Cardinals). Stan promptly made a date with Cardinal Owner Sam Breadon to say goodbye. But Eddie Dyer, in serious danger of becoming a manager without a ball club, saw Musial first. Stan stayed around, led the league with a .365 batting average, helped win the pennant and the World Series, was elected the league's most valuable player...
Besides managing the Cardinals, Businessman Dyer, 48, has his fingers in a lot of pies. In Houston, he is vice president of the Canada Dry Bottling Co. (where Pitcher Ted Wilks works in the off-season), general manager of an insurance company (which employs Pitcher Pollet part time), co-owner of a realty company and a director of the North Side State Bank...
...Dyer's fondest hopes is that he will be able to offer a job to any of his ballplayers who want to work after they are through in baseball. There is small chance, however, that Stan The Man, with at least five good years of baseball left in him, will ever wind up working for his current boss...
Marion's bad back worries Eddie Dyer as much as the team's hitting and pitching. If all three stay in the groove, Dyer's only worry will be which American League club-the New York Yankees or Boston Red Sox-they will play in the World Series. Naturally, Dyer hopes it will be New York because the park there holds twice as many cash customers as Boston's, and that means the fattest possible World Series cut for the manager and his players...