Word: musial
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Steady though they may be, the Pirates can hardly hope to keep pace with the Cards, who should lead until the end of August when Stan Musial wilts in the heat. With speed at short and second (Julio Gotay and Julio Javier), and power at first and third (Bill White and Ken Boyer), the Card infield is well anchored. The outfield of Musial, Curt Flood and the recently acquired Minnie Minoso should hit a collective .300. Good front line pitching from Ernie Broglio, Lindy MacDaniel and Larry Jackson is indispensable, however...
...either league. But fielding was as slick as ever. Milwaukee led all National League teams, New York topped the American League, and only five of the 18 big-league clubs were butter-fingered enough to commit an average of one error a game. The individual stars: Cardinal Veteran Stan Musial, better known for his hitting, set a record by becoming the National League's best-fielding outfielder for the third time; Red Sox Rookie Chuck Schilling booted only eight balls all season, set an American League mark for second basemen...
Detroit and Cleveland, fighting for first place in the American League, clubbed nine between them in one game; Detroit, out-homered 5-4, won anyway, 15-7. The St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial walloped two against San Francisco to give him a lifetime total of 1,292 extra-base hits, within swatting distance of Babe Ruth's 1,356. Team of the week: the Milwaukee Braves, with 15 home runs. Man of the week: New York Yankee Outfielder Roger Maris, who hit four to raise his season's total to 27 and put him twelve games ahead...
...batter's box, he coils into a carbon copy of St. Louis' Stan Musial. His stance is closed, his right knee is slightly bent, and he scowls at the pitcher over a high-cocked elbow. When he unwinds, his swing is level and lightning-quick. His reflexes are so fast that even bad balls become good targets. In his first time at bat in a major league game, Boston Rookie Carl Yastrzemski sliced an outside fast ball into leftfield for a single. Next game against the Los Angeles Angels, he drove in two runs, hit a single...
...Stan Musial went out of his way to insist that the decline in batting averages is not due to a decline in the skill of the players, the old shibboleth of many sportswriters. "In the '40s. when I came up, I played against the great players of the '30s. and I heard them talk about the great ones of the '20s. Now it's the '60s, and some of the kids I'm playing with and against will be the superstars of the '70s. You get a long perspective, and the players...