5/21/2023 0 Comments Stan Musial by Stan MusialThere was this game, early in ’54, the year that Edward Murrow went after Joe McCarthy and Roger Bannister ran a mile in four minutes, and Musial’s Cardinals trailed the Chicago Cubs 3–0 in the seventh inning. And he never once got thrown out of a baseball game He played before television, and after John Glenn orbited the earth. He played when Jimmy Dorsey and Glenn Miller ruled the Top 40 charts, and he played when Elvis was thin, and he played when Chubby Checker twisted. He played across different American eras - he played in the big leagues before bombs fell on Pearl Harbor, and he retired a few weeks before Kennedy was shot. Musial played in 3,026 games in his career, or about as many as his contemporaries Joe DiMaggio and Johnny Pesky played combined. Stan Musial never got thrown out of a game.
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