Word: musial
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Louis fans, at any rate, are not likely to agree. Gussie has already done too much for their Cards. A couple of years ago he was little more than an avid fan; then he went on a hunting trip with Outfielder Stan Musial. "Why don't you buy the Cards?" asked "Stan the Man." "Not a chance in the world," said Gussie. But, not long after, Cardinals Owner Fred Saigh was convicted of income-tax evasion and forced to sell the team (TIME, March 2, 1953). Gussie got his chance, and he jumped at it. In one year...
...Louis, the highest-paid player in National League history, Cardinal Outfielder Stan Musial, signed his fourth straight contract for a salary estimated...
...York, Yankee Johnny Mize became the 93rd player in major-league history to hit safely 2,000 times. The only other members of the 2,000-hit club in active service: Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, Bob Elliott of the Chicago White...
Like a few stars of the past, and like the St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial, or Boston's Ted Williams (now a marine fighter-pilot in Korea). Mantle is that combination of color, speed and power at the plate that makes baseball turnstiles spin. Naturally, the Yankees are delighted. So, with duly diminished enthusiasm, are the other American League club owners. Mantle makes their turnstiles spin, too, and in a year when TV has all club owners worried...
...champion of the major leagues for the last six years, promptly put him to work in the same outfield with Hank Sauer who tied Kiner in homers last year (37). Chicago also picked up Kiner's $75,000 salary, second highest in baseball (after St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial's). Rickey was estimated to have reduced his payroll by $67,000 and banked an additional...