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10 “Durocher would say anything”: William Marshall, Baseball’s Pivotal Era 1945–1951 (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1999), 102.
11 “I remember one time”: Marty Marion, St. Louis, May 19, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
12 On October 1: John McGuire, “Safe at Home: When War Veterans Returned to Baseball 50 Years Ago, They Staged a Season Like No Other,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, May 26, 1996.
13 Once the Cardinals’ farm director: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 221.
20 | A VISITOR ON THE TRAIN
1 Bimbo Cecconi, interview, Nov. 24, 2008.
21 | BEST SERIES EVER
1 “The big individual duel”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 95.
2 Williams had taken his first look: “Ted Williams Gets Eyeful of Stan Musial,” World-Telegram and Sun, Sep. 20, 1946.
3 The Red Sox came into the Series: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 226.
4 Another difference: Vecsey, ed., The Way It Was, 39.
5 A note of defiance: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 227.
6 “Me, I’d have hit a ton”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 109.
7 Once Williams had shot out: George Sullivan, “The Kid and I,” www.bu.edu/bostonia/fall02/kid.
8 “Ted! Ted! They’re up there”: Freddy Schmidt, interview, Apr. 14, 2010.
9 “Twenty years old”: Joe Garagiola, interview, Apr. 16, 2010.
10 “Once he missed”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 96.
11 “If I’m breathing”: Vecsey, ed., The Way It Was, 42.
12 Before the sixth game: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 241.
13 “Gonzalez couldn’t have stopped Enos”: Vecsey, ed., The Way It Was, 51.
14 “I’ve looked at those films”: Ibid., 50.
15 “I’m out for the season!”: Ibid., 43.
16 Less than two hours later: McGuire, “Safe at Home.”
17 When the Sox arrived: Vecsey, ed., The Way It Was, 43.
22 | BOAT-ROCKER
1 It was not the first time: Giglio, Musial, 59–60.
2 Musial said he loved barnstorming: Marshall, Baseball’s Pivotal Era, 343.
3 The Court had declined: Fetter, Taking on the Yankees, 67.
4 “I think a lot”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
5 Murphy’s efforts were blocked: Lowenfish, Branch Rickey, 430.
6 On June 7: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 142.
7 Ralph Kiner, later a Hall: Ralph Kiner, interview, Aug. 24, 2009.
8 After the game, Brown was roughed: William O. DeWitt Sr., Cincinnati, Sep. 29 and Oct. 1, 1980, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
9 “Murphy money”: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 192.
10 “If it hadn’t been”: Marty Marion, St. Louis, May 19, 1978. A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
11 “Marty was kinda our leader”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
12 “I had to go”: Marty Marion, St. Louis, May 19, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
13 One of the leaders: Turner, When the Boys Came Back, 194.
14 On October 13: Associated Press, “$175,000 in Radio Fee to Pension Fund,” New York Times, Oct. 14, 1946.
15 “We wanted some representation”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
16 “Mr. Breadon, I don’t care”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 101.
23 | STANLEY THE SCOUT
1 Musial, Feller, and Slaughter, from a tape at the conference “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream,” Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, Apr. 3–5, 1997; Marty Adler, interview, Jun. 24, 2009.
24 | THE STRIKE THAT NEVER HAPPENED
1 All the attention to Robinson: Timothy M. Gay, Satch, Dizzy and Rapid Robert: The Wild Saga of Interracial Baseball Before Jackie Robinson (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2010), 222.
2 “He didn’t impress me”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
3 For those who wondered: Lowenfish, Branch Rickey, 23–24.
4 “You know, he wasn’t”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
5 “Well, that was probably true”: Ibid.
6 “I wasn’t in that meeting”: Ralph Branca, interview, Nov. 14, 2008.
7 “I’ll play an elephant”: Lowenfish, Branch Rickey, 418–19.
8 Rumors of a strike: Jonathan Eig, Opening Day: The Story of Jackie Robinson’s First Season (New York: Simon and Schuster, 2007), 97.
9 The strike rumors: “Cards’ Strike Plan Against Negro Dropped,” New York Times, May 9, 1947; “Robinson Reveals Written Threats,” New York Times, May 10, 1947.
10 “Sam was one of their own”: Bob Broeg, interview, ESPN SportsCentury, Nov. 29, 2000.
11 Frick quoted Breadon: Eig, Opening Day, 97.
12 “The National League will go down”: Harold Rosenthal, “The Story Behind the Story,” New York Times, May 4, 1997.
13 Breadon later told Jerome Holtzman: Eig, Opening Day, 94.
14 Most of the Cardinals: Dom Amore, “Freddy Schmidt, 92, Came Out of Hartford, Won Two World Series Rings and Saw Jackie Robinson Break In, But Let Him Tell You,” Hartford Courant, Jun. 29, 2008.
15 “Nothing was ever concrete”: Harry Walker, Leeds, Alabama, May 11, 1988, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
16 Breadon labeled Woodward’s: New York Herald Tribune, May 10, 1947.
17 calling them “carpetbaggers”: Amore, “Freddy Schmidt.”
18 “I think they felt”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
19 “I heard talk”: Roger Kahn, The Era: 1947–1957: When the Yankees, the Giants, and the Dodgers Ruled the World (New York: Ticknor and Fields, 1993).
20 In 1997, Musial told: Robert Dvorchak, “Donora’s Stan Musial Is Still ‘The Man,’ ” Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Mar. 12, 1997.
21 Besides, Musial was dealing: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 104.
22 Dr. Hyland proposed: Sher, “The Stan Musial Nobody Knows.”
23 “Dyer says, ‘Hiya, pal’ ”: Bob Broeg, interview, ESPN SportsCentury, Nov. 29, 2000.
24 The Cardinals were on: Arnold Rampersad, Jackie Robinson, a Biography (New York: Knopf, 1997), 182.
25 The spiking happened: Eig, Opening Day, 222; Roscoe McGowen, “Kurowski’s Homer Stops Brooks, 3–2,” New York Times, Aug. 21, 1947.
26 “How he didn’t go tumbling”: Ralph Branca, interview, Nov. 14, 2008.
27 “I see it developing”: Joe McDonald, interview, Nov. 25, 2008.
28 “He said something to me”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
29 In another version: Kahn, The Era, 87.
30 “I’m glad you asked that question”: Enos Slaughter, at the conference “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream,” Long Island University, Brooklyn, New York, Apr. 3–5, 1997.
31 “You have to admire”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
32 “They were making such a big deal”: Marty Marion, St. Louis, May 19, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
33 “Robinson had said”: Julius Hunter, TV One-on-One (St. Louis: Gashouse Books, 2008).
34 “He was like Gil Hodges”: Roger Kahn, interview, 2010; Kahn, “Of Galahad and Quests That Failed.”
35 And then there was the story: David Falkner, Great Time Coming: The Life of Jackie Robinson, from Baseball to Birmingham (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1995), 225.
36 “After I warmed up”: Joe Black, at the conference “Jackie Robinson: Race, Sports and the American Dream,” Long Island University, Brooklyn, Apr. 3–5, 1997.
25 | STANLEY AND THE KID
1 The way Ted Williams told it: Ted Williams with John Underwood, My
Turn at Bat: The Story of My Life (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1969), 243–44.
2 In Musial’s version: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 208.
26 | THE BIG THREE
1 Giuseppe DiMaggio came to the States: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 16–17.
2 The family spoke a Sicilian dialect: Ibid., 214.
3 “I never wore a uniform”: Williams, My Turn at Bat.
4 “For some reason, Ted Williams”: Ned Garver, interview, Jun. 30, 2009.
5 “Just don’t let John Henry know”: Curt Block, friend of Ned Garver, interview, May 6, 2010.
6 “When he was taking batting practice”: Ned Garver, interview, Jun. 30, 2009.
7 “I don’t want to say”: Joe Williams, “Musial Rates DiMaggio over Ted Williams,” New York World-Telegram and Sun, Mar. 23, 1949.
8 Musial met Cobb once: Tom Ashley, interview, 2009. 174 Bill White, a teammate: Bill White, interview.
9 “I only faced him”: Dom Amore, “The World According to Freddy,” Hartford Courant, Jun. 29, 2008.
10 in April 1947, Tom Yawkey: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 228.
11 “If we had traded Williams”: Linn, Hitter, 21.
12 “Sure, he can hit”: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 188.
13 DiMaggio thought of Williams: Ibid., 164.
14 Williams’s brother, Danny: Linn, Hitter, 325.
15 “He once told me”: Letter from Jim Prime, 2009.
16 “All he ever wants”: Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 179.
17 “When I get asked”: Warren Mayes, “Stan the Man Still a St. Louis Icon at 81,” Associated Press, Aug. 17, 2002.
18 Cronin did not vote: Linn, Hitter, 21.
27 | BAD AIR
1 Miss Halloween: Verna Duda, interview, Mar. 25, 2009.
2 In the middle: Dr. Charles Stacey, interview, Mar. 24, 2009.
3 “My zadie said”: Dr. Devra Davis, interview, Apr. 17, 2009.
4 Killer smogs in cities: Davis, When Smoke Ran Like Water, 11–29.
5 “Our grandfather Musial”: Gerry Ashley, interview, 2009.
28 | FAMILY LIFE
1 “Every time my dad”: Sher, “The Stan Musial Nobody Knows.”
2 “Frankly, I would just as soon”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 120.
3 Ed Carson had recognized: Sher, “The Stan Musial Nobody Knows.”
4 Biggie was the son: Giglio, Musial, 170.
5 Later he moved into patronage: “Julius (Biggie) Garagnani Dies,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, June 20, 1967.
6 “larger than life”: Tom Ashley, interview, 2009.
7 “A bit rough around the edges”: Gerry Ashley, interview, Mar. 2009.
8 “I had a moderate amount”: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 121.
9 Carmen would always remember: Christopher Hann, “It Ain’t Over,” New Jersey Monthly, Feb. 1, 2008.
10 “I had my first sour cream”: Tim McCarver, interview, Nov. 13, 2008.
11 Another view of Biggie: Biggie Garagnani, as told to J. Roy Stockton, “My Partner Stan Musial,” Sport, July 1950.
12 “Say, Big, have you been over”: Mickey McTague, email, Dec. 8, 2010.
13 “He and my mom”: Gerry Ashley, interview, 2009.
14 Musial insisted: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 121.
15 “Sometimes if they do something”: Mrs. Stan Musial, “My Life with Stan.”
16 The Musials were friendly: Gerry Ashley, interview, 2010.
17 “He’d always be holding”: Roger Kahn, “The Man.”
18 “My dad was interested”: Dr. Ben Vanek, interview, Dec. 1, 2008.
19 “Dick isn’t interested in baseball”: Hugh Brown, “Young and Old Flock to ‘The Man,’ ” Philadelphia Evening Bulletin, May 21, 1958.
20 “Those kids used to try”: Mike Shannon, interview, The Legend of Stan the Man.
29 | DAY OFF IN CHICAGO
1 “The kids were all thrilled”: Prof. M. B. B. Biskupski, Ph.D., S. A. Blejwas Endowed Chair in Polish History, Central Connecticut State University, interview, Nov. 4, 2008.
30 | PRIME TIME
1 after Dr. Hyland removed: Associated Press, “Stan Musial Doing Well,” New York Times, Oct. 16, 1947.
2 “Stash seemed to stand up”: Sher, “The Stan Musial Nobody Knows.”
3 But Musial has suggested another reason: Halls of Fame: Stan Musial.
4 “Pitchers generally had thrown”: The Legend of Stan the Man Musial.
5 “He said, ‘Yeah, Commissioner’ ”: Fay Vincent, interview, Dec. 30, 2008.
6 “You know, that was the decision”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
7 Quincy Trouppe, scouting: James, The New Bill James Historical Baseball Abstract, 228.
8 Howard’s widow, Arlene: Arlene Howard and Ralph Wimbish, Elston and Me: The Story of the First Black Yankee (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2001); Arlene Howard, interview, 2008.
9 “The only time”: Stan Musial, St. Louis, May 17, 1978, A. B. Chandler Oral History Project.
10 “He had something to say”: Marshall, Baseball’s Pivotal Era.
11 “We’d watch ’em”: Don Newcombe, interview, Jan. 7, 2009.
12 Musial the businessman: Sher, “The Stan Musial Nobody Knows.”
13 Musial’s pose toward the owners: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 114–20.
14 “He had always approached”: Fred Saigh, “What Musial Means to the Cards,” Sport, Jul. 1952.
15 “Mr. Saigh, I have been well”: Ibid.
16 “I think about that sometimes”: Red Schoendienst, as told to Bob Broeg, “Me and My Roomie,” Sport, Jun. 1955.
17 “When we were on the road”: Kahn, “Of Galahad and Quests That Failed.”
18 “The Pirates would be”: Ralph Kiner, interview, Aug. 24, 2009.
19 “That was a real nice thing”: Golenbock, The Spirit of St. Louis, 424–25.
20 “Early in the game”: Wayne Terwilliger, interview, Feb. 27, 2009.
21 Musial rarely gave advice: Joe Cunningham, interview, Jan. 16, 2009.
22 “I thought, ‘Okay’ ”: Ed Mickelson, interview, Feb. 3, 2009.
23 “There was a half inch”: Joe Garagiola, interview, Aug. 2009.
24 “Hey, Stan, about ten of us”: Garagiola, interview, 2009. Yogi version: Yogi Berra, with Dave Kaplan, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2008), 20.
25 Lil happened to stay home: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 165.
26 Legend says that Musial promised everybody: Robin Roberts, interview, Jan. 27, 2009.
27 Henry Aaron, in the same dugout: Wayne Stewart, Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial (Chicago: Triumph Books, 2010), 145.
28 “Stash is the oldest player”: Berra, You Can Observe a Lot by Watching, 162.
29 “It was a long game”: Yogi Berra, interview, Dec. 9, 2008.
30 Then there is Frank Sullivan: Frank Sullivan, Life Is More Than 9 Innings: Memories of a Boston Red Sox Pitcher (Honolulu: Editions Limited, 2008), 58.
31 | STANLEY GIVES AN INTERVIEW
1 Interview with Zev Yaroslavsky, Dec. 30, 2008.
32 | TEMPER, TEMPER
1 “No matter who you talk to”: Dal Maxvill, interview, Jan. 14, 2009.
2 “The Cubs were awful”: Email message from Steve Kaufman, 2009.
3 “Why would anybody”: Jack Buck, with Bob Broeg and Bob Rains, “That’s a Winner!” (Champaign, Ill.: Sports Publishing, 2002).
4 Musial also displayed righteous anger: Giglio, Musial, 233.
33 | AND SOME BAD TIMES
1 “My ambition,” Busch said: “The Barons of Beer,” Time, Jul. 11, 1955.
2 Known as Gussie: Robert McG. Thomas Jr., “August A. Busch Jr. Dies at 90; Built Largest Brewing Company,” New York Times, Sep. 30, 1989.
3 Normally, the players bet sodas: Garagiola, Just Play Ball, 82–83.
4 “The Year of the Big Minus”: St
an Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 172.
5 Bob Broeg, Musial’s confidant: The Legend of Stan the Man Musial.
6 Lane pronounced: Associated Press, “Only Five Cards ‘Untouchables,’ ” May 21, 1956.
7 “We would be taking”: Schoendienst, Red: A Baseball Life, 81–82.
8 investigating a rumor: Robin Roberts, interview, Feb. 1, 2010; “Phils Are Not Talking Trade for Roberts,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jun. 13, 1956; Bob Broeg, “Lane Tones Down Trade Talk After 3-Way Meeting,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jun. 13, 1956.
9 Biggie promptly called: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 178.
10 “I’m picking up Stan”: The Legend of Stan the Man Musial.
11 After a day or two: Associated Press, “Musial Deal Not in Cards, Lane Insists,” Jun. 11, 1956.
12 Red began to wonder: Schoendienst, Red: A Baseball Life, 83.
13 Musial’s memory of that awful day: Ibid., vii.
14 “Yeah, boy, he didn’t like that”: The Legend of Stan the Man Musial.
15 “Musial just laughed”: Ibid.
16 Red was pretty miserable: Louis Effrat, “Schoendienst Misses His Room-Mate Most of All,” New York Times, Aug. 7, 1956.
17 One consequence: Roger D. Launius, Seasons in the Sun: The Story of Big League Baseball in Missouri (Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2002).
18 “I never saw Stan”: Schoendienst, Red: A Baseball Life, 83.
19 One moment came: Giglio, Musial, 200.
20 Upon turning thirty-six: Stan Musial: “The Man’s” Own Story, 183.
21 “We were a tough bunch”: Hunter, TV One-on-One.
22 Musial gave a brief look: Giglio, Musial, 222.
23 “I met Al Barlick”: Joe Torre, interview, Jul. 9, 2009.
24 Another umpire anecdote: Joe Posnanski, “Where Are They Now?” Sports Illustrated, Aug. 2, 2010.
25 Stanley has even received credit: Craig Mulder, “The Right Call: Widely Respect, Harvey Earns an Umpire’s Highest Honor,” Memories and Dreams (National Baseball Hall of Fame), Spring 2010.