Stan Musial
Stan Musial
Stanley Frank "Stan" Musial, nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American Major League Baseballoutfielder and first baseman. He spent 22 seasons playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1963. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, and was also selected to the St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionBaseball Player
Date of Birth21 November 1920
CityDonora, PA
CountryUnited States of America
What made me sign with the Cardinals? Because they used salesmanship, the personal touch.
The one unbreakable rule about hitting is this: if a batter hits well with his own particular stance and swing, think twice - or more - before suggesting a change.
Get eight hours of sleep regularly. Keep your weight down, run a mile a day.
Used to be bats had thick handles and a big barrel. Then they found it's not the size of the bat that gets home runs - it's the speed with which you can swing it.
A lot of hitters stay away from the plate, some are close up, some are forward, some are back. The thing about hitting is this: You have to know the strike zone. That's the most important thing. Hit strikes and put the bat on the ball.
I learned to hit with a broomstick and a ball of tape and I could always get that bat on the ball.
Unless you give it all you've got, there isn't any sense in playing,
I love to play this game of baseball. I love putting on the uniform.
I consciously memorized the speed at which every pitcher in the league threw his fastball, curve, and slider; then, I'd pick up the speed of the ball in the first thirty feet of its flight and knew how it would move once it had crossed the plate.
I came up in 1941 and I played against men who played in the 1930s. I stayed until 1963 playing against men who will be playing in the 1970s. So I think I can feel qualified to say that baseball really was a great game, and baseball is really a great game, and baseball will always be a great game.
It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn. The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, 'Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.'
The first principle of contract negotiations is don't remind them of what you did in the past - tell them what you're going to do in the future.
What I try to do is never to hurt anybody else and figure if I don't, then I'm not likely to get hurt myself.