Partially because Major League Baseball was relatively depleted of talent due to World War II, St. This season for the ages would earn him his first of three NL MVP awards and his first of a record 24 All-Star Game selections. The 1943 season, however, proved to be Musial’s breakout year as he led the National League in virtually every offensive category including games (157), plate appearances (700), hits (220), doubles (48), triples (20), batting average (.357), on-base percentage (.425), slugging percentage (.562) and total bases (347) while adding 81 RBI, 13 home runs and a career-high nine stolen bases. Louis then dispatched the New York Yankees in five games to win their fourth World Series title. Stan grabbed left field coming out of spring training in 1942 and helped lead the Cardinals to the National League pennant with a. This would prove to be a brief taste of what was to come for the next 25 years.
379 batting average and 26 home runs while adding 94 RBI. In 1941, Stan earned a slot on the Cardinals roster after leading the Western Association with a. The injury kept the future Hall of Famers from being a “five-tool” player due to a virtual dead arm. But thankfully, he would become one of the game’s great hitters. At Daytona, Kerr would help the young Musial develop posting his best year as a hurler when he went 18-5, but a severe shoulder injury playing the outfield halted Stan’s dreams of being a Major League pitcher.
Musial began his minor league career as a pitcher with Williamson in 1938 and then met former big leaguer, and future mentor Dickie Kerr who was managing the Daytona Beach Islanders. Louis Cardinals as a junior, though the signing was not announced until months later in order to keep his eligibility intact. And as his skills developed, he was reportedly offered a scholarship to the University of Pittsburgh to play basketball, but Musial had already signed a baseball contract with the St. Stan came up as a pitcher with the hopes of making the big leagues on the mound, but he also showed flashes of greatness in the field that got him noticed. Musial grew up in the steel and zinc-rich Donora, Pennsylvania, a small town that also produced big league talent with NFL standout Dan Towler, CFL quarterback Arnold Galiffa, high school baseball standout Buddy Griffey, father and grandfather of Ken Griffey and Ken Griffey, Jr., and of course Musial. Stanley Frank Musial (NovemJanuary 19, 2013) born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial put together one of the most consistent hitting careers of any Major League player in history highlighted by the fact that he posted the exact same number of hits both home and away (1815), had 252 home runs at home and 223 away and scored 999 runs at home and 950 away.
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