Most Valuable Player in the National League (1943, 19) and Major League Player of the Year (19). His athletic awards, records and recognitions are extensive. His major league career, all with the Cardinals, stretched from 1941 to 1963. Musial started with the Cardinals as a pitcher, but in 1941, he was converted to an outfielder/first baseman because of an arm injury. 19, 2013.In the minds of sports fans everywhere, Stan Musial and the St. Musial was elected to the Hall of Fame in 1969. “Unless you give it all you’ve got, there isn’t any sense in playing,” Musial said. When he retired after the 1963 season, Musial had an NL record 3,630 hits – 1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road – and a. 330 average, missing out on his eighth NL batting title by 16 points. He made a run at the National League batting title in 1962 at the age of 41 before settling for third place with a. His 24 All-Star Game selections are more than anyone except Hank Aaron. Over the final 14 years of his career, Musial would play in 18 more All-Star Games (two per season from 1959-62). The next season, Musial finished second in the MVP voting for the first of three straight seasons and played in his sixth All-Star Game. He won his third and final MVP that year. 376 while missing the Triple Crown by just one home run. He had his greatest offensive season in 1948, hitting a career-high. Louis to its third World Series title in five seasons. Musial and the Cardinals won the World Series again in 1944, and after taking 1945 off to serve in the Navy, Musial won his second MVP in 1946 while leading St. The Cardinals won the World Series that year, and the next season Musial won his first of three NL Most Valuable Player awards for leading the Cards back to the World Series, where they lost to the Yankees. 320 mark in his first 12 full big league seasons. 315 as the Cardinals’ everyday left-fielder – one of only two times he’d dip under the. The next year, Musial sailed through the vast Cardinals’ minor league system before hitting.

352 in his part-time outfield duty in 1940. Musial’s manager, Dickey Kerr, suggested that Musial turn to hitting – based on the fact that Musial hit. But while playing the outfield due to a shortage of players, Musial permanently damaged his left shoulder while diving for a ball.

21, 1920 in Donora, Pa., Stanley Frank Musial began his pro baseball career as a left-handed pitcher in 1938 after signing with the Cardinals. More than half a century after his retirement, Musial remains the face of a Cardinals’ franchise he helped turn into a dynasty.īorn Nov.

Few who saw the Cardinals’ legend in person thought a better ballplayer existed. Inside-out swing.īut Stan Musial played baseball the right way.

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