“Stan Musial,” the young Marine replied quickly. Williams laughed and said, “He must have better eyes than I have.” Hall of Famer and former Cardinal Stan Musial takes a swing as Ozzie Smith is ...

He got a hit with his final swing, sending an RBI single past Cincinnati’s rookie second baseman — that was Pete Rose, who would break Musial’s league hit record of 3,630 some 18 years later. Of those ...

September 19,1949 -- St. Louis Cardinal Stan Musial in Brooklyn. Stan Musial takes a cut in Brooklyn in 1949. "The Man" won seven batting titles with the Cardinals. As the unendurable monotony of the ...

There hasn’t been a .400 hitter in baseball since 1941. And there aren’t even many .300 hitters any more—only ten last year (five in each league), compared with 28 in 1950. How come? Last week in ...