Stan "The Man" Musial (MLB Baseball Sports Documentary) 

My dad passed away last year a life long Cardinal fan. Upon cleaning out his bedroom I came upon News clips, autographs, pictures, uniform shirts etc... all of one man Stan Musial. My dad was 92 when he died his room looked like a young boys shrine to this guy. Must have been a special person .

This morning, I took my 90 year old father to visit Stan Musials’ grave. He was ever so grateful to pay his respects to his childhood hero. Both of them were from Pennsylvania steel mill towns and met briefly in a Missouri hotel in the mid 1950’s. My dad played football for Indiana University and was preparing to play against University of Missouri. Stan asked him to score a touchdown for him…..and he did! My dad has deep respect for Stan the Man and is adamant that he is one of the top baseball players ever. But more than that, he was a great honorable man.

Stan Musial and Harmon Killebrew were the epitome of greatness, class and dignity.

What a lucky man to play with his 1st team and for so long . Following the money isn't everything, but being loved is .Thank you Mr Musial for wonderful memories , even if they came years after he retired and this is a White Sox fan.

In 1943, he struck out 18 times in 700 plate appearances. Let me repeat that. In 1943, he struck out 18 times in 700 plate appearances. That's godly.

When he died it was a story of note throughout sports media in Poland. Maciej Petruczenko wrote an excellent column about Stan in Przegląd Sportowy.

A lot of the old timers here in Texas were Cardinals fans because there were no baseball teams yet here in Texas. I knew an old guy and he was a Cardinals fan and he loved Stan “The Man” Musial

I finally understand why Stan was my fathers favorite ball player..my pop was from Williamson West Va. and was 10 when stan played there..he saw him there..he taught me to bat like Stan Musial..RIP Dad and Stan

One of the most Beautiful things about this post is as of this date 6/21/21...there are no dislikes to this ... and 899 LIKES... May GOD rest in peace Stan Musial...

Stan makes the all-time team. You need a hit, you call The Man.

Stan will always be The Man!!❣

Now THIS is the example of an actual Hero.

Greatest Stan Musial quote (IMO) was after one Spring Training had concluded a writer came up to him and asked: "Stan! Why are you always smiling?" Stan replied: "Wouldn't you be smiling if you knew you were gonna hit .330 this year!" And, of course, he said it with a big grin.

He was basically St. Louis' Tony Gwynn. Never struck out. Never left. Never stopped smiling or being gracious. And hit NL pitching like he owned it. Which he did. And he hit more than 4 times as many HRs as Anthony Keith Gwynn, who I also loved.

Growing up in St. Louis, this man was the picture of class and dignity. On the statue of him outside of the stadium reads an inscription bearing the following quote: "Here stands baseball's perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight." Nobody else in sports has ever come to close to being as beloved as Stan was in the Gateway city.

I love the Cardinals. They are a classy team.Had great players and managers. Great Fans. Stan was something special as a player and as a human being

Stan was the man.

The most under rated super star baseball player.

I'm not gonna say the man was underrated because baseball historians know how great stan was but he kinda flies under the radar when the greatest of all time are discussed I looked up his career statistics and they're phenomenal The high level of performance and the longevity of excellence He was 38 and still hit over 330 in average and he hardly ever struck out at the plate . Hit for power too and drove in a ton of runs . Absolutely one of the greatest

I grew up a Cardinal fan during their dominance in the ‘60s. Stan’s retirement happened just before I became cognizant of the game of baseball, but I always felt his presence in Busch stadium as I rooted for Bob Gibson, Lou Brock, Tim McCarver and the others. He was still a Cardinal.

Curt Flood asked Musial hitting advice: "Curt, you get ahold of a good pitch and you hit the shit out hit it"

I got shake his hand once. I went to a fan fest (the only time in my life) because Stan Musial was going to be signing. My entire iMessage in line I had tears in my eyes. There he was !!!! The Man!!! #6!!! A joy

Musial was one of the all time greats.A top tenner.

I grew up in St. Louis and remember him so well. He is, was, an always will be a personal hero.

Stan the Man is forever!

As a Cardinals fan I am so proud to have such a great man and such a great athlete to have played for the Cardinals.

Back in the late 80’s I found an address for Mr Musial in the back of a Beckett magazine. I was just a kid, but I sent him a card with a short note asking for an autograph. In a couple weeks he sent it back to me, signed. That really meant a lot to me, and I still have that card. He was the epitome of what a great baseball should be.

What a first class gentleman.

A moment of silence for Stan "the man" Musial.

Stan Musial was such a Phenomenal Baseball Player. But An even Better Man#RIP!!!

He is great ! God bless Stan forevermore and beyond ! Amen !

My great-aunt brought me to a Cardinals game in 1963. I was 5 years old and she wanted me to see the Man. I don't remember much but a bunch of cheering. Must have been him!

Pete Rose got caught in a gambling scandal, DiMaggio had some pretty big (I mean REALLY big) issues with marriage, Babe Ruth was a serial philanderer, and Ty Cobb was a violent jerk. Meanwhile, Stan the Man was married 72 years, abstained from drugs, and presented the image of a perfect human being - so perfect that biographers had trouble finding a "flawed" aspect of him!

Amazing player.. top 10 hitter ever, maybe top 5.

Here stands baseball's perfect warrior, here stands baseball's perfect knight.

Musial struck out 18 in 701 PA in 1943. As impressive as that is, HOF thirdbaseman Joe Sewell stuck out only 114 times in 8333 PA in 14 season and the most he struck out was 20 in 1922 and the least 3 in 1930 and again in 1932. He has to be considered as the toughest out in the history of baseball.

I love the smile on Joe Willie Namath's face when talking about meeting Stan, at 3:24. This Hall of Famer from the NFL looks like a little kid when taking about meeting his hero. Beautiful.

God Bless Branch Ricky... The man was such a pioneer and involved in the greatest moves in the history of the game.

God Bless Stan Musial to me one of the greatest major leaguers I wish they made a movie about Musial's life my name is carlos garza a cancer survavior

One of the best all time

He was the cardinals All time GREAT ! --Stan The Man--

This awesome man is my great great uncle.

He used to live on Mardel st in a house that was a little bigger then 1000 square feet. All the kids would ring his doorbell and ask for autographs and he would sign them. He moved to a slightly larger house in 1955. He didn't move into what you would consider a large house until his final playing year in 1963, it was around 5000 square feet.

I'm a Phillies fan and Stan is in the conversation for my favorite player ever. Love this guy.

His five hit game that tied the record for five hit games in Boston was the day I was born - in Boston.

Love Stan "the Man".....

I worked at a CPA firm in the KMOX building in St. Louis. It was a two block all to the park. I went to the park in the summer of 1977 (Musial retired at something age 41 after the 1963 season. I went early to watch batting practice. Musial was an P.R. Officer of a bank (I think), so he came to the Bush Stadium II (round one), and he took off his suit coat and tie and began to take batting practice. He instantly was hitting line drives off the walls, occasionally over the wall. I know he was getting batting practice speed pitches, but it was 14 years after his retirement at age 41; so, he was at least 55! He likely played a lot of golf, but he was not working out. At age 55 (even though I played beyond high school, playing to age 24 and stayed in various sports we old dude play (slow pitch softball, reaction league basketball, etc. THERE IS NO WAY I COULD HAVE DRIVEN EVERY PITCH OFF A WALL OR AS A LINE DRIVE IN THE ALLEYS OR HOME RUNS! I recall his last game, when he was happy to retire after getting a single in a real game. He was ever the gracious representative the greatest game. I grew up with Stan. The first game I ever watched St. Louis (the Browns were long gone) still had electric street cars,cars, and one of my older brothers (10 years ahead of me in school) drove the three of us and my dad across the old bridge into downtown. I had never seen a street car, all the wires, and traffic intersecting rails. We made it through and drove into the old Sportsman Park (by then named Bush stadium after the Brewery bought the Cardinals). Neighborhood people were out hawking parking spots. We parked off an alley in a guy’s garage and made the very, very short walk to the park. One of our 4 seats was partially blocked by a steel girder, so I (at age 8 or so) was given a good seat for a double header with Philadelphia. I was in awe of Stan the Man and others who on the average to fairly bad teams STL had after the last World Series win in 1946 (the year I was born). They would not win a World Series (or play in post season, as there were no playoffs) until just after I had graduated from high school (age 18) and had gone to college two states away from my home in Illinois (about 80 miles from St. Louis). The Yankees had won the American League (as usual); the Cards, with an old, slerve-trhowing left-handed (Cur Simmons) and a young guy named “Bob Gibson “ throwing to an incredibly young catcher, Tim McCarver and Ken Boyer playing 3rd Base (winning series MVP based upon his one home run, a grand slam) would beat his brother, the Hall-of-fame Yankee 3rd Baseman. To this day, his equivalent playing 3rd for the hapless Chicago Cubs would be welcomed into the Hall, but I don’t think Ken Boyer has. I would enjoy many other titles, as the Cards won’t have great teams in 1967 and 1968. The 1980s would be fruitful, and eventually the Cards would hold the National League record for the number of World Series Titles. I lived and worked in St. Louis only one year, a year of mediocrity; however, whether in Japan, practicing law in Illinois, or living in California (now over half my life, my home), I have followed only one team. The one with the bird or birds on the bat. Whether winning or having a season like the one last year, they are forever the team that gave me my first dream (to be a STL. Cardinal player, something I just could not accomplish. Nevertheless, the Cardinals, and great players like Stan the Man and numerous others have given me a life of thrills, with fewer years to have to say, “WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR” far fewer times than any other team in the league. THANKS, STL & TAN!

One of the best.

The bloody music !!

MISS YOU STAN! GO REDBIRDS!!!!

"that ties musial" Stan hits a home run "give it back to Musial"

Played in the minors at Rochester NY, I lived right down the road 1984-2009, they switched to Baltimore in '61. Played from 1941-1963. 3630 hits. Half at home, half on the road. It didn't matter to him. 696 strikeouts, 1599 walks, 725 doubles 177 triples, 1951 RBI's, .559 slugging percent, 18 times MVP. I don't care if you're Cy Young, I'd have been terrified to face him.

St. Louis never forgot him, it's just the world didn't heed his existence.

Born in Pittsburgh just yet another great athlete from western pa

STAN ,THE MAN WAS / IS KNOWN BY MIDWESTERNS . WE WEREN'T BOMBARDED BY EASTERN PRESS .

Ruth, Gehrig, Musial, Aaron, Cobb...top 5 all time

It is a shame how power minded teams in the majors have become right now.

Musial was beloved by Brooklyn fans; they (we) never booed "The Man." When introduced to Pope Pius XII, Musial confused the Pontiff by answering his question, "What do you do?" with, "I'm a Cardinal."

Grande entre los grandes en el Universo de por vida,.Bendiciones para ud,1;29PM,10/11/2018/,Raleigh,NC.

I was there at Sportsman's Park, when Stan Musial played played his last game.

In May 2009 I met Dick Musial son of Stan Musial at M. D. Anderson hospital In Houston Texas I was recovering from surgery colon cancer my name is Carlos Garza I was a baseball announcer

Trivia Stan Musial and Ken Griffey Jr. were born in the same city

damn good ball player but better person

Funny that Williams and Musial both hit the wall in 1959 and then rebounded. .

believe me,growing up in the Midwest,you knew who the man was.

TIL that he hit a home run the day he became a GRANDFATHER!!! Now how cool is that?

The Man

My Dad took me to the Polo grounds in 1963, and Musial hit 5 HR's in a dblheader vs. the Mets. His last year, too.

I want to be like Stan

❤ stan musial

Stan the man is what a true baseball player should look like and play like he is these greatest baseball player ever

It's pretty crazy he was almost traded to the Phillies in exchange for pitcher Robin Roberts, who's practically the equivalent to Stan as far as being just tragically underappreciated. Roberts is one of the great pitchers of all time, not just his era, yet I bet not many casual baseball fans, outside of Philly area, would know anything about his career

The Man himself!

make more videos like this plz

i just got his jersey and i love it

What most fans don't understand, is that he likely would have hit well over 600 hr's, if not for the screen in front of the covered outfield pavillion from rf foul line too cf. He hit 394 doubles in St Louis; how many off the screen that was 28 ft high off the ground; Not 3 feet high, like Ruth had in NY or Williams in Boston. lets say he hit 20% off the screen (=79 hr?) his first 5 years he didn't try to elevate the ball, averaging 14 hr's per year. The team asked to try elavating, too hit more hr's...the next 10 years he averaged 31.7 hr's( to the end of hi prime) that's 17.7 more per year, than his first 5 yrs (17.7x5=87.5 more hr's) add 79 for the screen +87 for first 5 years =166= 475 he hit=641 hr's and how about missing 1944 in thw war if you can add 31 more you have 672 home runs. Even Ted Williams told his son when asked, said Musial was as good a hitter that he was. Musials BA was .340 up through the age of 36 to the end of his prime (same as Gehrig) AND ALL THIS WITHOUT HAVING ANY POWER IN THE LINEUP BEHIND HIM ie: Ruth had Gehrig, Mays had McCovey, Aaron had Mathews...Williams had Foxx for 3 years in the beginning, and always had 2-3 others in his lineup that hit 20+ hr's...MUSIAL nothing equal any of the others! To get it clear, if not for the wars, Williams would have broken Ruth's record (but he wasn't equal to Ruth in power) Musial certainly would have hit over 600 hr's if not for the screen, and not trying at the beginning. And Musial was a better overall slugger than Mays or Aaron even w/o the adjustments, with them he would have blown them away..Up through the 1970's the Greattest Cardinals of all time were Stan Musial-Rogers Hornsby-Bob Gibson and Ozzie Smith (Carlton would have been #5 and we would have a couple more championship if the owner weren't so cheap with the money! Hornsby the greatest RH batter, thus the most vauable 2nd baseman ever, Gibson the absolutely the greatest World Series pitcher ever!

In one of the seasons he had more triples than strikeouts.

I can't think of any other ball player who played as well after age 40

The 39 people who voted thumbs down must have severe brain damage.

The most this lad struck out was 46 Times, I'd like to see a ballplayer in this time go without 60.

I remember reading that Stan is Hank Aaron favorite player and that his hittting approach is more in line with stan rather than ted who made his hitting worse when he tried following his book hehe.

For those that don't know , check the stats.

He was dubbed 'The Man' in Bklyn. We knew...

Somehow, someway I believe he managed to be an even better person than he was a player. That's a helluva statement, but the reason I believe it to be true is that I've honestly never heard anyone that met him or knew him say any different.

Best there ever was. Too bad that when he died last year he didn't get the tributes that the overrated Jeter is getting.

Stop watchingafter 10 min. The constant music is over the top.

Aaron also had more hits, so this video is from something at least 48 years old!

Trader Frank Lane destroyed a promising and revitalized Cleveland Indian club after the 1959 season when he traded away the Rock for fading singles hitter Harvey Kuenn. He even traded his manager Joe Gordon for Detroit Tigers skipper Jimmy Dykes. He 400 trades he made in his career, 241 with the White Sox . Lane traded players, such as Norm Cash, Rocky Colavito and Roger Maris who would all become stars when with the Indians He also traded Hall of Famers Enos Slaughter, Red Schoendienst and Early Wynn. Not all his trades were terrible and he did make a good one for the Brewers during his time there. The only ball player to go to his funeral was Bobby Bragan and the only reason he went was Bowie Kuhn asked him to represent baseball.

Last comment: had the honor to meet his grand nephew... SSG Musial, US Army, at Ft. Leonard Wood. Same grin, same Pennsylvania accent and soft voice. Shook the young man's hand and said "Tell Uncle Stan there's another hero in his clan."

Top ten ballplayer all time. Beyond any doubt. It makes me cringe to hear that only Pete Rose had more hits than Stan Musial. Pete Rose doesn't belong in the same sentence with Stan Musial! That SOB is in every way Musial's opposite. Musial was class. Rose a horse's ass. Even that is out of context because it insults the noble equine to be mentioned with Pete Rose. Musial was beloved for his decency perhaps more than any other ballplayer. His record speaks for itself. 3630 hits. 1815 left handed and 1815 right handed! A .331 lifetime batting and 475 home runs. A marvelous base runner and outfielder extraordinaire. Had he played in the media capital of New York his fame would have exceeded Kings. Everyone was so enamored with Joe DiMaggio. You could make a very real argument that Musial was better. His numbers bear that out. And his incredible longevity far exceeded Joltin Joe's. The difference? DiMaggio played in New York. Musial in St.Louis. Willie Mays , Henry Aaron, Frank Robinson, and DiMaggio were his only peers. As the old saying goes "He might not be in a class by himself. But whatever one he's in it doesn't take long to call roll." Everything you would want as a player and person was embodied in Stan Musial. Hall of Fame in every way.

RIP

Never before in the history of baseball, and never since, has one man meant so much to one city, and to only one city, as Stan Musial did to St. Louis. It is insane that he's not even considered the most famous ball player in his own home town of Donora, PA (That distinction belongs to Ken Griffey, Jr. Side note: Musial played alongside Junior's grandfather in high school). Derek Jeter came somewhat close, but the whole world were Jeter fans, it seemed. Musial, however, had to play in the shadow of DiMaggio and Ted Williams. He was like the Batman of baseball. When you think of Batman, you immediately think Gotham City. When you think of Stan Musial, you immediately think St. Louis.

Any chance we can clone Stan Musial a hundred or so (or more) times. The world could use it. Badly.

he was my great uncle

How is it possible that Stan was not a 100% vote on the HOF?

Musial deserves better than this rotten documentary.Who directed this atrocity

this Mario Kart music is way too much for this Doc. Other than that, great stuff

I wanna drink a beer with joe namath cool dude

Is it just me, or did the editing/sound director pull off a REALLY annoying job?

geezus the audio on this is horrible. lower the goddamn music, lift and clean the dialogue. musial deserves better than this.