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...Louis had never heard the sad sound before. Last week, after watching First Baseman Stan ("The Man") Musial go hitless in four times at bat, after watching him make two errors and boot away a game with the Dodgers, 5-3, Busch Field bleacherites finally blew up. They booed the best Cardinal of them...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fans & Stan | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Infielder Red Schoendienst (who is hitting .319 for the Giants).* All this, they were told, was going to buy them a pennant-this year. Still they are limping along in fourth place, and it hurts so much that the fans are impatient even with their old friend and favorite, Musial...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fans & Stan | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Musial has brightened big-league ball for 15 years. And baseball has been as good to the onetime southpaw pitcher who learned how to spin a left-handed curve on the grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fans & Stan | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Stan Musial sees it, he has a couple of good seasons left in his long, record-rich career. As soon as he decides he no longer has it, he will quit. If boos from the stands egg management into beating him to the gun, it will be St. Louis' loss, not Stan...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: The Fans & Stan | 9/3/1956 | See Source »

...Stan Musial's seventh-inning double could not keep the St. Louis Cardinals from losing to the Milwaukee Braves 8-0, but it was Stan the Man's 1,072nd extra-base hit, an achievement that gives him the National League record, one ahead of the Giants...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Scoreboard, Aug. 27, 1956 | 8/27/1956 | See Source »

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