Word: manly
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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With a Bicycle. At Ebbets Field, a restless buzz rose from the crowd as the first two Cardinals took their turns at bat. Then a slender young man, wearing No. 6 on his back, stepped to the plate. Stan ("The Man") Musial was at bat and the crowd really let go. A hard-bitten minority booed, but they were drowned out by the cheers. It was Brooklyn's sportsmanlike tribute to one of the greatest players in the game. Stan Musial is the highest salaried (at $50,000 a year) and most feared batter in the National League...
...until I get off this bus. I don't see anything to sing about." Things were different after they had taken a game from Cincinnati and learned that Brooklyn had blown one to Boston. They gave Doc Weaver, the club trainer, a rousing cheer for being the last man to board the bus. "Know what will stop falling hair?" someone asked. "No, what?" said Doc, and the whole bus howled when he got the answer: "The floor." Everything seemed funny...
...leaguers into his Mexican Baseball League, and he was making the biggest eyes of all at the Cardinals. With the clink of gold, he signed up three of themf and he had the Adam's apple of a fourth bobbing like a pogo stick. The fourth man was Stan Musial...
...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...
...Cardinals have the best of the schedule (they begin a long home stand while Brooklyn embarks on a perilous western trip), they could very easily blow the pennant if Marty ("Mr. Shortstop") Marion's ailing sacroiliac doesn't behave. Solid, knowledgeable Marty Marion is the steady man who holds the Cardinal infield together...