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...June he batted .486-with one astonishing eleven-game streak at .610. What's more, Ca-rew's performance this year is no fluke. He has a lifetime average of .332, which ranks him with the giants of the recent past (Williams, .344; Joe DiMaggio, .325; Stan Musial, .331). His performance makes a mockery out of the records of such current celebrities as the New York Yankees' Reggie Jackson (.267) and the Cincinnati Reds' Joe Morgan (.282). Carew has won the American League batting championship five times, and four of those titles came...
...these different contests into a neat pile of friendly but telling stories, a chronicle of a baseball season spent roaming the country with the boys and the boys-turned-men who make up baseball. There is Walter O'Malley, cigar-puffing grandee of the Los Angeles Dodgers. And Stan Musial, of the .330 lifetime average and undying fame. Then there is Artie Wilson of the Negro Leagues, who outshone Jackie Robinson and won only mildly-regretted obscurity, and Early Wynn, the Hall of Fame pitcher who threw at the head of any batter who stood between him and his historic...
Died. Joe Musial, 72, cartoonist who pioneered the use of comic books as teaching aids and drew the Katzenjammer Kids for the past 25 years; after a long illness; in Manhasset, N.Y. Musial took over Rudolph Dirks' comic strip featuring the terrible Teutonic twins in 1952 and, as art director of King Features' comic-book division, was also a ghost artist for many other series...
...first baseman at Amherst, then an editor in New York. Years passed. Sports stars grew younger. Bowen grew older. Came the day when he could no longer take comfort even from the presence on the sporting scene of elderly prizefighters like Archie Moore, or the ageless prowess of Stan Musial...
Ranked 1-2-3 in the "trustworthiness" department were Stan Musial, 53, who has not played for the St. Louis Cardinals in ten years; Mickey Mantle, 42, who last batted for the New York Yankees in 1968 and New York Mets Manager Yogi Berra...