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...fans' perennial favorites: Boston's Ted Williams (batting .298 at week's end) and New York's Yogi Berra (.217). New faces popped up everywhere in the lineups. Only one man was everybody's choice: St. Louis' Stan ("The Man") Musial was a unanimous pick (discounting a lone myopic dissenter) for National League first baseman...
...Crandall, Milwaukee (.280) 1b. Stan Musial, St. Louis (.351) 2b. Bill Mazeroski, Pittsburgh (.278) 3b. Frank Thomas. Pittsburgh (.296) ss. Ernie Banks, Chicago (.302) If. Bob Skinner, Pittsburgh (.324) cf. Willie Mays, San Francisco (.373) rf. Hank Aaron, Milwaukee...
Never, that is, until he had drifted down to a job as manager of the Class D Daytona Beach farm club for the St. Louis Cardinals. There he had a skinny Polish kid named Stanley Musial who thought he was a pitcher. Kerr watched the boy and decided that as a pitcher he made a superb hitter. When Musial was not working on the mound, Kerr kept him in the line-up as an outfielder so that his potent bat was always available. Then one day Stan fell on his throwing arm and finished his career...
Dickie Kerr is done with baseball now, and it is his proud boast that "I've never gotten anything out of the game but what it paid me." But last week, at 64, he was enjoying a great deal more than that. When Stan ("The Man") Musial became the eighth man ever to make 3.000 big-league hits (TIME, May 12), Dickie Kerr and his wife heard the news in their new Houston home, a neat white frame bungalow that had just been bought for them, out of gratitude and a sense of everlasting obligation, by a sore-armed...
...Batter: Musial, St. Louis...