Pete Donovan is a Palm Desert resident and former Los Angeles Times sports reporter. These words from former baseball commissioner Ford Frick are inscribed below the Stan Musial statue that sits outside Bush Stadium: “Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. In Wins Above Replacement (WAR), Musial is eighth all-time, Williams 11th and DiMaggio way back at 41.Īdd up all the numbers and Stan Was The Man. Somebody get Mulder and Scully on the phone and have them check out Donora, Pennsylvania. How did he compare to his two famous Hall of Fame inductees from the same era – Williams and DiMaggio? At the very least, he was certainly their equal and a strong case would say he was better than the revered DiMaggio, who never led the league in doubles or triples and had 1,400 fewer hits than Musial, although Stan played nine more seasons. Donora, Pa., the birthplace of Musial and Griffey, who also share a birthday. Had he played in New York or Boston, he would have been mayor of either city. Louis was the western most location for major league baseball. Maybe it was because he played way out West in St.
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