Word: musial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...game, was slammed for nine hits, five for extra bases, yet beat the Dodgers 8-6. The Giants' Willie Mays performed some run-scoring aggression at home plate (see cut), personally accounted for the winning run over Pittsburgh, did the same the following day. The Cardinals' Stan Musial hit a home run to beat Cincinnati. The Yankees' Mickey Mantle walloped two out-of-the-park homers to help lick Washington (and added two more homers by week's end). And the Red Sox's Ted Williams expertly dumped three hits into left field against...
Admittedly, most of the '46 heroes are gone now. Of the three remaining, Al "Red" Schoendienst has had his driving license stamped "Restricted to Glasses," and Stan Musial has trouble loping in from the outfield. And poor Ted Williams, though still the most popular slugger since Babe Ruth, doesn't like to play on cold days...
...eight-year major-league career as a Brooklyn Dodger, Catcher Roy Campanella was elected Most Valuable Player in the National League. (Campy's other awards were in 1951 and '53.) Only other three-time winner in the National League: the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial (1943, '46, '48). ¶ Statisticians finally finished wading through the columns of figures they kept so carefully all during baseball season, computed the averages and named the Philadelphia Phillies' Center Fielder Richie Ashburn National League batting champion. Ashburn's average: .338. Other National League championships: Most Home Runs...
...knows better than Harry Walker, though, how much Stanky has accomplished in rebuilding the Redbirds. Says he: "Baseball is played basically the same by all clubs. The players are the important thing." The Cards today have the players, all right-the lively oldtimers Musial and Schoendienst, some heavy-hitting youngsters, Moon, Repulski and Virdon, and a few reliable pitchers, Arroyo, Harvey Haddix (an 18-game winner last year) and fireballing Brooks Lawrence. To bring them along as fast as he can, Harry Walker uses one un-Stanky prescription: relaxation. "I feel that you should let the players be natural...
Eddie Stanky's boys are probably the fastest, and certainly the scrappiest, team in the league. They are also the best-hitting squad in the majors, and their young outfield is so good that Stan Musial is currently playing first base. The team's pitching is slightly weak, but Haddix, Lawrence, Raschi, and Frank Smith should provide enough backbone. It will be close, but the Cards...