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...admit that I'm an avid Cardinal fan and that Stan Musial is my favorite player, but even if all that weren't true, I'd still think Ernest Hamlin Baker's Sept. 5 cover one of the cutest and cleverest I have ever seen...
...look out over the baseball field (over the catcher's head), right field is to my right. So, it seems to me, Stan Musial squares off on the right side of the plate, not the left...
...Although he perhaps is not as fleet-footed as Musial on a straightaway course, the old veteran Enos Slaughter, the captain of the team, surely is still the outstanding baserunner of the 1949 Cardinals . . . Stan The Man makes & breaks the fate and fortunes of the Cardinals, but for fleetness on foot where it pays off in the pennant race-that is, around the bases-give me Enos ("Country") Slaughter...
...Cardinals, including Manager Eddie Dyer, would rather have Musial; others might outrun him on a straightaway but not around the bases. Slaughter has slowed down this year...
With September's 30 days looming ahead, Stan Musial cannot afford to let his big bat cool off. Although the 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...