As a big baseball fan, today's featured article on
Wikipedia hits home.
Stanley Frank "Stan" Musial (
/ˈmjuːziəl/ or
/ˈmjuːʒəl/; born Stanisław Franciszek Musiał; November 21, 1920 – January 19, 2013) "was an American professional
baseball player and
Navy veteran of
World War II. He was a
Major League Baseball (MLB)
outfielder and
first baseman on the
St. Louis Cardinals for 22 seasons, from 1941 through 1963. Nicknamed 'Stan the Man', Musial is widely considered to be one of the greatest hitters in baseball history. He compiled 3,630 career
hits, ranking
fourth all-time and first in a career spent with only one team. With 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 on the road, he also is considered to be the most consistent hitter of his era. He hit 475
home runs during his career, was named the
National League's (NL)
Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times, and won three
World Series championship titles. He shares the MLB record for the most
All-Star Games played (24) with
Hank Aaron and
Willie Mays. Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the
Baseball Hall of Fame in
1969. He was also selected to the
St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 2014."
MLB statistics
Hitting
| Category | G | AB | H | 2B | 3B | HR | R | RBI's | BB | SO |
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| Total | 3,026 (6th) | 10,972 (9th) | 3,630 (4th) | 725 (3rd) | 177 (19th) | 475 (28th) | 1,949 (9th) | 1,951 (6th) | 1,599 (13th) | 696 |
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Fielding
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