Word: stan
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When the St. Louis Cardinals were wallowing around in seventh place early this season, experts had no trouble suggesting why. For one thing, Outfielder Stan ("The Man") Musial, who led the league with .376 last year, was bogged down around .250; for another, the Cardinal pitching staff seemed to have come apart,. Finally, by tabbing up the ages of everybody on the squad, it was possible to show that the Cards were really a bunch of tired old men (average age: 29).* By last week, most of these weighty considerations were being gently consigned to ash cans...
Trailing the league-leading Dodgers by 2½ games, the Cards moved into Brooklyn for a four-game series. In the first inning of the first game, Brooklyn Pitcher Elwin ("Preacher") Roe tempted Outfielder Stan Musial with a slow, change-of-pace curve; Musial eyed it carefully and whaled the ball over the right-field fence. In his box, the Dodgers' Branch Rickey generously remarked: "That Musial is a great hitter." The wallop was just a foretaste of what was going to happen to Brooklyn. The Cards won that game, 3-1, won the second game...
...hulking (6 ft. 3½ in.), cocky President Stan Weiss, the decision seemed like a conspiracy between the major scheduled airlines and CAB to get rid of Standard and its profitable cut-rate air coach business. Cried he: "We're going to take those so & so's into the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and try to get a stay...
...headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
...spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...