Stan Musial: An American Life, (Paperback)

from snash

My sense is that the book did the best it could with a difficult subject. I think it gave a good and true picture of the man and the times. The problem was that Stan Musial was a public man with very little private man available. I would guess his private self wasn't even available to himself. Ve...

from lindapanzo

I've read more than 250 baseball books/baseball histories and this is one of the better ones. That said, it's very good, not great. The author clearly did his research and interviewed many, many people, from Stan's daughter to current and former players to a man whose father ran a kids' baseball ...

from jamespurcell

A good book about a good man and a great ball player. One of the big three major league hitters, with Joe DiMaggio and Ted Williams that were dominant in the pre and post WW2 era. Mediocre nonentities now earn more in a year than these men earned in their entire careers. Musial was from an area i...

from Mantra

I was just getting into baseball as Stan Musial's career was winding down. I was also a Mickey Mantle and Yankees fan, and, of course, back then it was much more difficult to get information, especially living in Oklahoma, so my knowledge of Stan Musial came mostly from Hall of Fame discussions, ...

from nmele

George Vecsey's column is usually the first thing I read in the Sports section of the New York Times, and over the years I have come appreciate him not only as a reporter but also as a decent human being, compassionate but honest. Which qualities he shares with his subject, Stan Musial. As the ch...