As a tribute to No. 6, Stan Musial, who died Jan. 19, 2013, at age 92, I’m going to post a different historical photo of the greatest Cardinal each day for the next six days, Jan. 21-26. Each photo is a copy I have collected from a library or archive.
This is the first of the six:
Red Schoendienst, left, and Stan Musial were friends and road roommates with the Cardinals. Both were elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame.
In his book, “Stan Musial: The Man’s Own Story” (1964, Doubleday), Musial wrote, “Red was one of the great players of my day and a fine roommate. He’s the best second baseman I ever saw, with wonderful relaxed hands and remarkable ability to roam far and wide for pop flies.”
Schoendienst, still a Cardinals instructor, turns 90 on Feb. 2, 2013.
Next: A Cardinals outfield of Stan Musial, Enos Slaughter and Terry Moore.
Hi there! This post could not be written any better!
Reading this post reminds me of my old room mate! He always kept chatting about this.
I will forward this post to him. Pretty sure he will have a good read.
Many thanks for sharing!