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...Records. Time was when Stan would have been forgiven his rare errors. Just the week before, a lusty double had bought him the National League record for extra-base hits (1,072). long held by the Giants' Mel Ott. And he is so close to so many other marks that before they hang a plaque with his name on it in the Hall of Fame, The Man will surely stand no less than third in the league in all eight offensive departments: runs scored, hits, doubles, triples, home runs, RBIs, total bases and extra-base hits...
...grimy sandlots of Donora, Pa. For one thing, it kept him out of the zinc mills; even better, for the last five years the Cards have paid him $80,000 a season. Trading shrewdly on his reputation, he now owns half of a successful St. Louis restaurant (Stan Musial and Biggie's), is a bank director and has a piece of half a dozen other well-paying businesses...
When the Going Was Good. But baseball is still Stan's life, and he intends to stick around as long as he feels his playing is paying its way. He is now pushing 36, and when Manager Fred Hutchinson moved him from right field to first base early this season, he spoke not a word of complaint. He figures he is still nimble enough on his feet, but he knows, too, that sooner or later every man slows down. "Besides," says he, "first base is a nice place to visit with people." He chats amiably with opposing runners, horns...
Company or no, though, nothing comes as easy now as it did when Stan and the Cards were a young club. "It was easier to play ball in the old days," he explains. "If we dropped a game it wasn't a matter to worry about, to cause everybody to start pressing. We knew that in the long run we were going...
...Stan Musial sees it, he has a couple of good seasons left in his long, record-rich career. As soon as he decides he no longer has it, he will quit. If boos from the stands egg management into beating him to the gun, it will be St. Louis' loss, not Stan...