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Title: Stan Musial
Subtitle: An American Life
Author: George Vecsey
Narrator: Scott Brick
Format: Unabridged
Length: 12 hrs and 7 mins
Language: English
Release date: 05-10-11
Publisher: Random House Audio
Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 62 votes
Genres: Bios & Memoirs, Celebrities
Publisher's Summary:
When baseball fans voted on the top 25 players of the 20th century in 1999, Stan Musial didnt make the cut. This glaring omission - later rectified by a panel of experts - aised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most underrated athlete of all time?
In Stan Musial, veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this 20-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the kind of prestigious biographical treatment previously afforded to his more celebrated contemporaries Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. More than just a chronological recounting of the events of Musials life, this is the definitive portrait of one of the games best-loved but most unappreciated legends, told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered Stan the Man over the course of his nearly seventy years in the national spotlight.
Stan Musial never married a starlet. He didnt die young, live too hard, or squander his talent. There were no legendary displays of temper or moodiness. He was merely the most consistent superstar of his era, a scarily gifted batsman who compiled 3,630 career hits (1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road), won three World Series titles, and retired in 1963 in possession of seventeen major-league records. Away from the diamond, he proved a savvy businessman and a model of humility and graciousness toward his many fans in St. Louis and around the world. From Keith Hernandezs boyhood memories of Musial leaving tickets for him when the Cardinals were in San Francisco to the little-known story of Musials friendship with novelist James Michener - and their mutual association with Pope John Paul II - Vecsey weaves an intimate oral history around one of the great gentlemen of baseballs Greatest Generation.
There may never be another Stan the Man, a fact that future Hall of Famer Albert Pujols - reluctantly nicknamed El Hombre in Musials honor - is quick to acknowledge. But thanks to this long-overdue reappraisal, even those who took his greatness for granted will learn to appreciate him all over again.
Critic Reviews:
Although Stan Musial is universally regarded as one of baseball's greatest players, he is nevertheless underrated. He played far from the national media spotlight, in America's best baseball city, St. Louis. (One reason it is the best: Musial played there.) And his amazing consistency - he got 1,815 hits on the road and 1,815 at home - made him unspectacularly spectacular. Happily, and at long last, George Vecsey has taken Musial's measure in this delightful biography of a man and a baseball era. (George Will)
A fascinating and profound look at the most underrated great player of all time, and one of the true gentlemen of the game, Stan Musial. No one researches a book like George Vecsey. I learned something on every page.(Tim Kurkjian, Senior Writer for ESPN the Magazine and analyst for ESPNs Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter)
