Thomas Promise Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 One baseball's greatest player of all time. A true gentleman and true professional. I have missed you Stan since 1963 when you retired from the Cards. Now St Peter has another allstar in his lineup. Rest in Peace. http://aol.sportingnews.com/mlb/story/2013-01-19/stan-musial-dead-st-louis-cardinals-legend-92-years-old-hall-of-famer Link to comment
Randy W Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 We lived in St. Louis toward the end of his career - I got to see him play several times 1 Link to comment
Mick Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Stan the Man was one of the greatest to ever lace up a pair of cleats, that's for sure. A lifetime batting average of .331 puts him in a very elite fraternity. I saw him play in spring training several times as a kid. Back in those days we lived near Payne Park in Sarasota, Florida, spring home of the White Sox for many years. The Cards trained up in Tampa/St. Pete and used to come down to Payne Park for Grapefruit League games. Link to comment
Mick Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 Earl Weaver also passed away yesterday or the day before. What a character Weaver was. For a long time he held the record for being thrown out of the most games (I think Bobby Cox) finally surpassed him. He had a running grudge with Ron Luciano, the ump that used to have the dramatic ways of calling a guy out. Luciano once threw Weaver out of both games of a double header and on another occasion tossed him out of a game when he brought the lineup card out to home plate before the start of a game. When I moved to Miami in 1983, the Orioles still trained there in the spring. I used to love to go to their spring training games just to see Earl Weaver. 1 Link to comment
Zhou Zhou Posted January 20, 2013 Report Share Posted January 20, 2013 I attended spring training games as a youngster back in Ft. Myers...it all seemed very exciting then. They are both losses to the world of sports...RIP. Link to comment
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