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...last day of Rose's first season, the great Stan Musial squirted a final pair of singles, one to each side of Cincinnati's rookie second baseman, and retired. For 18 years Rose deplored those bouncing balls as two hits he might not have needed to pass Musial. He thinks that's normal: "How hard is it to remember you had 170 hits your first year and 139 your second, which is only 309 your first two years, when you've had ten 200-hit years and are averaging 198 hits a season for 20 years?" Furthermore: "If you have...
...spring training begins this season, I won't be watching. I used to admire baseball players; errant tobacco juice never bothered me. I could chew gum and hit balls through windows just as hard as the next kid on the block. My heroes were Stan Musial, Bob Gibson, and Mickey Mantle. You know the type--all-American boys raised on wholesome farms who battled incredible odds to win lucrative endorsements from coffee and soda empires. They had great nicknames like "Dizzy," "Dynamite," and "Duke." The Yanks were my idols in pinstripes...
...inspired pairing, St. Louis assigned Stan Musial and Moe Drabowsky last week to throw out a first ball at the World Series, something to do with their being Polish. Musial was and is a natural. When Missouri first heard that a Polish Cardinal had been elected Pope, most folks presumed it was Stan. But the selection of Drabowsky showed an instinct befitting the best baseball town in America, an affection for October strangers...
...underdog, and the Twins were once the Washington Senators, who won only once, in 1924. Shades of Walter Johnson, and all that. But then, I could also see pulling for the Cards. They were among the original eight of my youth, and I have a Bowman 1948 Stan Musial card now worth more than a hundred bucks (thank God I didn't throw that set out with the rest of the shoebox). So, now that the time has come I'm there, rejoicing or dying for my newly rationalized champions...
...flip side of novelty, the St. Louis Cardinals of Musial, Medwick, Marion and Martin, of Gibson and Brock, lately of Whitey Herzog and Ozzie Smith, are back in the play-offs for the second time in three years and the third in six. The Mets may do most of the talking (and publishing), but the Cardinals clearly do most of the winning, and outdrew New York to boot, 3 million plus a little to 3 million plus less. "If we win, just say we win, that's all we ask," says Smith, who remains galled by last year's champions...