Stan Musial

Net Worth

$3,000,000

Born in (City)

Donora

Born in (Country)

U.S.A.

Date of Birth

21st December, 1920

Date of Death

19th December, 2013

Mother

Mary Musial

Father

Lukasz Musial

Children

Richard Musial
Gerry Musial
Jeanie Musial
Janet Musial

About

Stan Musial, in full Stanley Frank Musial, byname Stan the Man, (born on November 21, 1920, Donora, Pennsylvania, U.S. — passed on January 19, 2013, Ladue, Missouri), an American expert baseball player who, in his 22-year playing profession with the St. Louis Cardinals, won seven National League (NL) batting titles and built up himself as one of the game’s most noteworthy hitters.

Early Life

Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, the fifth of the six youngsters (four young ladies and two young men) of Lukasz Musial and Mary Lancos. His mom was of Carpatho-Rusyn plummet and his dad was a Polish settler who consistently alluded to his child by the Polish moniker Stasiu, articulated "Stashu". Young Stan much of the time played baseball with his sibling Ed and different companions during his adolescence and considered Lefty Grove his most loved ballplayer. Musial likewise found out about baseball from his neighbor Joe Barbao, a previous small-time pitcher. When he tried out school, his name was officially changed to Stanley Frank Musial. At age 15, Musial joined the Donora Zincs; a semi-proficient group oversaw by Barbao. In his Zincs debut, he threw six innings and struck out 13 hitters, every one of the adults. He played one season on the recently restored Donora High School ball club, where one of his colleagues was Buddy Griffey, father of MLB player Ken Griffey Sr. furthermore, granddad to Ken Griffey Jr. Baseball analyst Bill James portrayed the more youthful Griffey, in contrast with Musial, as "the second-best left-gave hitting, left-gave tossing outfielder ever conceived in Donora, Pennsylvania, on November 21." His adventures as a rising part in Pennsylvania earned him the moniker "The Donora Greyhound". Musial likewise played b-ball and was offered an athletic grant in that sport by the University of Pittsburgh. Meanwhile, the St. Louis Cardinals had explored Musial as a pitcher and, in 1937, offered him an expert agreement after an exercise with their Class D Penn State League affiliate. Musial’s dad at first opposed the possibility of his child seeking a baseball vocation, however hesitantly gave his assent subsequent to campaigning by his child and his wife.

Road to Success

Musial batted .331 through the span of his vocation and set National League (NL) records for professional hits (3,630), runs batted in (1,951), games played (3,026), at-bats (10,972), runs scored (1,949), and copies (725). His 475 professional grand slams at that point positioned second in NL history behind Mel Ott’s all out of 511. His 6,134 all-out bases stayed a significant group record until outperformed by Hank Aaron, and his hit complete actually positions fourth untouched and is the most noteworthy by any player who went through his profession with just one group. A seven-time batting champion with indistinguishable sums of 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 hits out and about, he was named the National League’s (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) multiple times and drove St. Louis to three World Series titles. He additionally shares the significant alliance record for the most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Notwithstanding supervising individual organizations, including an eatery, both when his playing vocation, Musial filled in as the Cardinal's head supervisor in 1967, winning the flag and World Series, at that point leaving that position. Musial was chosen for the Major League Baseball All-Century Team in 1999. In February 2011, President Barack Obama gave Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the most noteworthy grant that can be presented on an individual by the United States government.

Challenges

Musial started the 1947 season by hitting .146 in April. On May 9, group specialist Dr. Robert Hyland affirmed a past determination of an infected appendix, while finding that Musial was simultaneously experiencing tonsillitis. He got treatment, yet didn’t have either his informative supplement or tonsils carefully eliminated until after the season ended. Despite his well-being burdens, he completed the year with a batting normal of .312. Being able to offset the cons of consistency in itself is an achievement that many players strive for. And here, Musial did not fail.

Failures

Completely recouped from his illnesses, Musial recorded his 1,000th profession hit on April 25, 1948. After a May 7 St. Louis Globe-Democrat article scrutinized baseball players for showing up in cigarette notices, he settled on an individual choice to never again show up in such ads.

Achievements

Chief among them was his induction into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, his first year of eligibility, and his induction into the St. Louis Walk of Fame in 1989.|In 1999 he was named a member of the Major League Baseball All-Century Team.|On February 15, 2011, President Barack Obama awarded Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest honor a U.S. civilian can receive.

Quotes

I love to play this game of baseball - I love putting on this uniform.
Hitting is like swimming. Once you learn the stroke, you never forget it.