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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100345517075

ISBN-139780345517074

eBay Product ID (ePID)110954185

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Book TitleStan Musial : an American Life

Number of Pages432 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicBaseball / History, Baseball / General, Sports

Publication Year2012

IllustratorYes

GenreSports & Recreation, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorGeorge Vecsey

FormatTrade Paperback

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Item Height0.9 in

Item Weight11.5 Oz

Item Length8 in

Item Width5.3 in

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Reviews"Big hitter Vecsey scores with [this] tribute."-- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[George] Vecsey's exhaustively researched book, Stan Musial: An American Life, winningly captures the essence of this son of the Depression; it is also filled with yearning for an earlier, perhaps better, time in sports: before steroids and showboating athletes, when the boys of summer traveled to games by train and the World Series ended in mid-October."--Associated Press "Vecsey brings a fans' reverence and a skilled journalist's love of incisive research to this book, and the result is a sumptuous trip through a mid-20th century when baseball really was the National Pastime."-- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Baseball fans get their fix of one of the game's brightest stars when they read George Vecsey's new book." --USA Today "Fastidiously researched . . . a rich glimpse behind the cheerful facade."-- Sports Illustrated "A biography of a worthy subject by a worthy author." --Los Angeles Times "Plenty of fascinating Musialiana." --The Wall Street Journal, "Although Stan Musial is universally regarded as one of baseball's greatest players, he is nevertheless underrated. He played far from the national media spotlight, in America's best baseball city, St. Louis. (One reason it is the best: Musial played there.) And his amazing consistency--he got 1,815 hits on the road and 1,815 at home-made him unspectacularly spectacular. Happily, and at long last, George Vecsey has taken Musial's measure in this delightful biography of a man and a baseball era." -George Will "A fascinating and profound look at the most underrated great player of all time, and one of the true gentlemen of the game, Stan Musial. No one researches a book like George Vecsey. I learned something on every page." -Tim Kurkjian, Senior Writer for ESPN the Magazine and analyst for ESPN's Baseball Tonight and SportsCenter From the Hardcover edition., When baseball fans voted on the top twenty-five players of the twentieth century in 1999, Stan Musial didn¿t make the cut. This glaring omission--later rectified by a panel of experts--raised an important question: How could a first-ballot Hall of Famer, widely considered one of the greatest hitters in baseball history, still rank as the most underrated athlete of all time?In Stan Musial, veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the kind of prestigious biographical treatment previously afforded to his more celebrated contemporaries Ted Williams and Joe DiMaggio. More than just a chronological recounting of the events of Musial¿s life, this is the definitive portrait of one of the game¿s best-loved but most unappreciated legends, told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered "Stan the Man" over the course of his nearly seventy years in the national spotlight.Stan Musial never married a starlet. He didn¿t die young, live too hard, or squander his talent. There were no legendary displays of temper or moodiness. He was merely the most consistent superstar of his era, a scarily gifted batsman who compiled 3,630 career hits (1,815 at home and 1,815 on the road), won three World Series titles, and retired in 1963 in possession of seventeen major-league records. Away from the diamond, he proved a savvy businessman and..., "Big hitter Vecsey scores with [this] tribute."- St. Louis Post-Dispatch "[George] Vecsey's exhaustively researched book, Stan Musial: An American Life, winningly captures the essence of this son of the Depression; it is also filled with yearning for an earlier, perhaps better, time in sports: before steroids and showboating athletes, when the boys of summer traveled to games by train and the World Series ended in mid-October."-Associated Press "Vecsey brings a fans' reverence and a skilled journalist's love of incisive research to this book, and the result is a sumptuous trip through a mid-20th century when baseball really was the National Pastime."- Pittsburgh Post-Gazette "Baseball fans get their fix of one of the game's brightest stars when they read George Vecsey's new book." -USA Today "Fastidiously researched . . . a rich glimpse behind the cheerful facade."- Sports Illustrated "A biography of a worthy subject by a worthy author." -Los Angeles Times "Plenty of fascinating Musialiana." -The Wall Street Journal

Dewey Edition22

Dewey Decimal796.357092 B

SynopsisNATIONAL BESTSELLER Veteran sports journalist George Vecsey finally gives this twenty-time All-Star and St. Louis Cardinals icon the biographical treatment he deserves. Stan Musial is the definitive portrait of one of the game's best-loved but most unappreciated legends--told through the remembrances of those who played beside, worked with, and covered "Stan the Man" over the course of his nearly seventy years in the national spotlight. Away from the diamond, Musial proved a savvy businessman and a model of humility and graciousness toward his many fans in St. Louis and around the world. From Keith Hernandez's boyhood memories of Musial leaving tickets for him when the Cardinals were in San Francisco to the little-known story of Musial's friendship with novelist James Michener, Vecsey weaves an intimate oral history around one of the great gentlemen of baseball's Greatest Generation.