Stan Musial Facts
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- Stanley Frank Musial (Stan Musial) is a retired Polish-American professional baseball player who was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
- Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, the fifth of Lukasz and Mary Musial's six children (four girls and two boys).
- At the age of 15, Stan Musial joined the Donora Zincs, a semi-professional team managed by Barbao.
- Nicknamed "Stan the Man", Musial played 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB) for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963.
- In Musial's 3,026 major league appearances, he was never ejected from a game.
- Stan Musial accumulated 3,630 hits and 475 home runs during his career, was named the National League's (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, and was a member of three World Series championship teams.
- Signed to a professional contract by the St. Louis Cardinals as a pitcher in 1938, Musial was converted into an outfielder prior to his major league debut in 1941.
- In his first full season, 1942, the Cardinals won the World Series.
- Stan Musial won his second World Series ring in 1944, then missed the entire 1945 season while serving with the United States Navy.
- Musial is father to four children from his marriage to wife Lillian: son Richard and daughters Gerry, Janet, and Jeanie.
- Musial compiled 3,630 hits in his career. 1815 hits came on the road and 1,815 hits came at home.
- Musial was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame in his first year of eligibility in 1969, named on 93.2 percent of the ballots.
- Musial was named a vice president of the St. Louis Cardinals in September 1963, and he remained in that position until after the 1966 season.
