23 For a very long time: John McGuire, interview, 2009.
24 Most days, Stanley and Zitzmann: Dick Zitzmann, interview, Dec. 17, 2008.
25 “Stan told me”: Hunter, TV One-on-One.
26 “Well, I’m hanging in there”: Warren Mayes, “Stan the Man Still a St. Louis Icon at 81,” Associated Press, Aug. 17, 2002.
27 Williams, DiMaggio and Stan: Dave Newhouse, “Musial’s Secretary: Stan’s Still the Man in Baseball,” Oakland Tribune, Apr. 4, 2004.
28 “I’ve always liked him”: Monte Irvin, interview, Dec. 5, 2008.
29 “No, this is Ted’s day”: Montville, Ted Williams, 372–73.
30 As the mourners left the church: Ben Cramer, Joe DiMaggio, 511.
31 In his mid-eighties: Gerry Ashley, interview.
32 “Back in the day”: Gerry Ashley, email, Dec. 28, 2009.
47 | UPSTAGED AGAIN
1 “It was cold”: Albert Pujols, interview, 2009.
2 Musial and Pujols seemed: Bernie Miklasz, “It’s Hard to Find Words to Describe Cards Star,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Apr. 12, 2009.
3 Their mutual admiration cut: Rick Hummel, “Albert and the Man,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Jul. 15, 2009.
4 “The whole dynamic changed”: Dick Zitzmann, interview, 2010.
5 “Mom and I were worried”: Gerry Ashley, interview, 2009.
6 Feeling the rush of time: Derrick Goold, “Meet the Man: La Russa Spread the Word of Musial,” St. Louis Post-Dispatch, Mar. 20, 2010.
7 Often they were photographed: George Vecsey, “For Musial, a Birthday and a Medal,” New York Times, Nov. 20, 2010.
8 “The day we started”: Ron Watermon, interview, Nov. 18, 2010.
9 DeWitt and everybody else: William O. DeWitt Jr., interview, Nov. 18, 2010.
EPILOGUE | HERE HE COMES NOW
1 Lunch with Jim Hackett, John McGuire, Larry L. Thompson, Missouri Athletic Club, 2009.
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VIDEOS
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ESPN. SportsCentury, 2000.
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR
GEORGE VECSEY has been a sports columnist for The New York Times since 1982. He specializes in international sports, such as the World Cup of soccer, the Tour de France, the Olympics, and Wimbledon, but considers baseball his favorite sport to cover because of the daily soap opera and opportunity to interview players and managers. Vecsey has written a dozen books, including Coal Miner’s Daughter for Loretta Lynn, later made into an Academy Award–winning movie. A graduate of Jamaica High and Hofstra College, he considers himself a New York boy who has lived in Kentucky and traveled extensively in Europe. He is married to Marianne Graham, an artist, and their three children have all worked in journalism.
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