STAN MUSIAL: ‘THE MAN’S’ OWN STORY ~ 1964 FIRST EDITION ~ BROEG ~ NICE COPY

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STAN MUSIAL: ‘THE MAN’S’ OWN STORY ~ 1964 FIRST EDITION ~ BROEG ~ NICE COPY
TITLE:
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STAN MUSIAL: ‘THE MAN’S’ OWN STORY"
AUTHOR:
STAN MUSIAL AS TOLD TO BOB BROEG
PUBLISHER: DOUBLE DAY BOOKS ~ GARDEN CITY NEW YORK
EDITION: STATED FIRST EDITION 1964 ~ 328 PAGES ~ 10” x 7”
SPECIFICS: HARDCOVER w/ UNCLIPPED DUST JACKET
This week on Ebay we are offering up this nice condition, first edition, first printing copy of this terrific autobiography of Stan ‘The Man’ Musial.
The full title is “STAN MUSIAL: ‘THE MAN’S’ OWN STORY”
Published in 1964, just after Stan retired from the Major Leagues, it is Stan Musial’s ‘autobiography’. It was written by the popular St Louis Cardinals sports writer Bob Broeg, but is essentially written using information and stories directly told to Broeg by Stan Himself.
It is one of the best, if not THE best book about Stan Musial ever written. As close as we will ever get to a true ‘autobiography’.
This is the original First Edition printing from 1964.
Bob Broeg was a very popular sports writer and editor of the St Louis Post-Dispatch and watched Musial’s entire career, playing 22 years in the Majors, all of it for the Cardinals in St Louis.
Stan and Broeg were good friends and the men knew each other very intimately. Nobody knew Musial and his story better than Broeg.
This book is a fascinating read and throughout its pages, Stan tells of the tough early days in the minor leagues, when he was a Class-D pitcher, playing ball while supporting a wife and baby. Stan tells of working odd jobs during the winters in his home town of Donora, Pennsylvania, between seasons.
The book tells of Stan Musial’s spectacular rise to the Majors, his long career with the Cardinals and Broeg peppers the story of his career with anecdotes of the great players, managers, owners, and teams.
The book contains lots of stories and commentary about the game as it was played back in the 50s and early 60s. It contains many details that only Musial would know about. It tells a modest and honest account of his remarkable career.
Stan discusses the highs and lows of the St. Louis Cardinals franchise, his personal feelings about the Cardinal's, the various managers he played for, the stars he knew and played against, as well as the art and science of hitting. It covers his career season by season.
There are many interesting personal reminiscences and amusing anecdotes throughout the book.
By far the best book on Stan Musial's career as a baseball player. It proves what many have said, that Stan was the classiest player of all time.
Ty Cobb once stated "Stan Musial is the closest to being [a perfect ballplayer] in the game today.... He plays as hard when his club is way out in front as he does when they're just a run or two behind."
One of the most interesting parts of this book is its appendix in which Stan personally evaluates most of the major players of his era and many others. Stan feels that Joe DiMaggio was the best overall player of the era.
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Stan Musial was one of the greatest baseball players of all time. A perennial All-Star selection, 3x World Series champion, 3x NL MVP, and holder of numerous MLB records. He had 3,630 career hits (the most by an NL player when he retired in 1963), a .331 career batting average, 475 career home runs, and 1,951 RBIs. He retired in 1963 with MLB records for extra-base hits and total bases. He had 1,377 extra-base hits, which still rank third all-time. On top of that, Musial very rarely struck out.
He put up some amazing offensive stats over his 20+ year career while being shuttled between various defensive positions for the Cardinals.
In 1948, he led the majors in batting average (.376), RBIs (131), hits (230), doubles (46), triples (18), total bases (429), runs (135) and slugging percentage (.702), launched 39 home runs— and struck out only 34 times the entire season. Some of today’s ‘Stars’ strike out 34 times a month!
Beyond Musial's mind-blowing stats was his undeniable and universal appeal. It seems that no one who ever played with or against him ever had any reason to say something bad about the guy.
Musial’s uniform number (6) is retired by the St. Louis Cardinals, a team that he played his entire career for.
Stan Musial spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 1944 and 1946 to 1963. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
Stan Musial's nickname—The Man—is the perfect encapsulation of a player who was as terrific on the field as he was gentlemanly off it.
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CONDITION: The book is in nice clean condition for being nearly 60 years old.
Book is tight, square, and unmarked. No names, writing or signs of prior ownership. Internally clean.
It has the original colorful Dust Jacket, unclipped (.95). The dust jacket has a few dings and nicks but still looks quite nice. The spine of the dust jacket is NOT sun faded, as many copies of this book are. Foxing is a minimum. This book was printed on paper that was notorious for foxing.
Minor ‘bumping’ to the corners. Minor nicks and dings to the dust jacket, but overall a decent sound first edition copy.
The book itself has nice Khaki cloth boards and the spine still has nice bright red and blue lettering.
The bottom edge of the spine strip is a little frayed, but not bad.
Overall, a very good condition, original first edition of the classic biography of 'Stan the Man' Musial.
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