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renrod 01-19-2013 10:14 PM

Stan 'the man' musial dies at 92
 
'Greatest Cardinal of them all' had been in ill health for some time.

STAN 'THE MAN' MUSIAL DIES AT 92 : Stltoday

ugotme 01-19-2013 10:39 PM

I know it sounds silly but - hard to believe !!!!

R. I. P.

chuckinca 01-19-2013 11:03 PM

Musial, Kaline, Mantle, Williams, Pepitone, Reese, Banks, Berra, Fox, Boudreau, Robinson, et al - the 50's had an amazing line up of great hitters!

R.I.P. Stan the Man

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rirlam 01-20-2013 07:12 AM

One of the nicest people in professional sports
 
One of the nicest, most decent guys in professional sports. I had the pleasure of meeting him a couple of times and he was a perfect gentleman and humble.

Tom Hannon 01-20-2013 08:20 AM

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Originally Posted by chuckinca (Post 611980)
Musial, Kaline, Mantle, Williams, Pepitone, Reese, Banks, Berra, Fox, Boudreau, Robinson, et al - the 50's had an amazing line up of great hitters!

R.I.P. Stan the Man

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You forgot Mays, Aaron, The Duke and Banks. To put Pepitone in this group is far fetched. Pepi didn't play until the 60's (replacing Moose) and although Joe had great potential he never reached it. Coulda, shoulda, woulda but wasn't. They don't make em like they used to.

BarryRX 01-20-2013 08:39 AM

RIP Stan.....a great hitter, a great human being, and a great harmonica player. As a Yankee fan, let me say you we're always liked and admired.

BarryRX 01-20-2013 08:41 AM

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Originally Posted by Tom Hannon (Post 612052)
You forgot Mays, Aaron, The Duke and Banks. To put Pepitone in this group is far fetched. Pepi didn't play until the 60's (replacing Moose) and although Joe had great potential he never reached it. Coulda, shoulda, woulda but wasn't. They don't make em like they used to.

I think the only thing Pepitone was famous for was for being the first major league player to use a hair dryer.

2BNTV 01-20-2013 09:53 AM

Stan the Man was a great ballplayer and gentleman. He represented baseball well and was the last generation of ballplayers who played in the non-steroid era.

RIP - Stanley

Ecuadog 01-20-2013 10:28 AM

He was another victim of Alzheimer's, "the long goodbye."

There have been many.

Dana Andrews
Charles Bronson
Abe Burrows
Glen Campbell
Winston Churchill
Perry Como
Aaron Copland
Willem De Kooning
Auguste Deter
Arlene Francis
Barry Goldwater
Rita Hayworth
Charlton Heston
Jack Lord
Burgess Meredith
Stan "The Man" Musial
Edmond O’Brien
Pauline Phillips (Abigail “Dear Abby” Van Buren)
Otto Preminger
Ronald Reagan
Sugar Ray Robinson
Norman Rockwell
Margaret Thatcher
Harold Wilson

I am sure that you could add some more names.

There are no survivors. There is no cure, yet.

Join The Villages Alzheimer's Walk on 1/26/2013. About 11,500 of your neighbors need a cure.

BarryRX 01-20-2013 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by 2BNTV (Post 612095)
Stan the Man was a great ballplayer and gentleman. He represented baseball well and was the last generation of ballplayers who played in the non-steroid era.

RIP - Stanley

Musial retired in the early 60's and the baseball steroid era didn't start until around 1988 with Canseco but really got going around 1992. So there were a lot of players that weren't juiced in the approximately 30 year interval.


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