A natural left-handed hitter and thrower, Musial made an important refinement in his batting skills while playing for the local Donora Zinc Works company team. Stan Musial took to baseball at an early age, excited by a neighbor who played semipro ball. The Musials had four daughters before Stanislaus was born, and later had another son, Ed, who would go on to play baseball in the minor leagues. His father, Lukasz Musial, was a Polish immigrant who worked in the shipping department of the mill in Donora. The parents of Musial's mother, Mary Lancos, had emigrated from Czechoslovakia. Stanislaus Musial was born in 1920 in Donora, Pennsylvania, three years after another Hall of Famer fromĪn immigrant family in southwestern Pennsylvania, Honus Wagner, retired from active play. Being a player was far more important to Musial than being a celebrity. A retiring country gentleman who transcended humble beginnings but never completely overcame his stuttering, Musial constantly expressed gratitude and love for the game -and he embodied the straightforward, no-frills attitude of America's baseball heartland. Musial was a first-ballot Hall of Famer, one of the best hitters of all time, and one of the game's great ambassadors. Louis Cardinals, including sixteen consecutive seasons when he hit. The greatest baseball player in one of the greatest baseball towns in the United States, Stan 'The Man' Musial spent his entire career twenty-three-year career with the St.

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