Stan Musial : an American life / George Vecsey.
Sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the kind of prestigious biographical treatment previously afforded to his more celebrated contemporaries. More than just a recounting of Musial's life, this is the definitive portrait of one of...
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New York :
Ballantine Books : ESPN Books,
©2011.
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Table of Contents:
- Morning in Florida
- The do-over
- Lucky Stanley
- The old master
- Stanley hits
- The stance
- A hand on the shoulder
- Lukasz and Mary
- Invitation to lunch
- How Donora got its name
- Mentors
- Lil
- Takeoff
- Pennant race
- Meet me at the fair
- The mahatma of the midwest
- Old Navy buddies
- The war
- Checks all over the bed
- Jubilee
- A visitor on the train
- Best series ever
- Boat-rocker
- Stanley the scout
- The strike that never happened
- Stanley and the kid
- The big three
- Bad air
- Family life
- Day off in Chicago
- Prime time
- Stanley gives an interview
- Temper, temper
- And some bad times
- On the hustings
- Better pants
- When the times changed
- Old folks
- Fender bender
- Retirement
- Stanley runs the team
- Hometown
- Stanley goes to a reunion
- The Polish connection
- The face in the crowd
- Stanley's statues
- More funerals
- Upstaged again
- Here he comes now.