Baseball History: Cardinals/Dodgers and Stan Musial

This weekend two great National League rivals, the St. Louis Cardinals and Los Angeles Dodgers, are playing 4 games at Dodger Stadium in L.A.

There is so much history involved with the two teams and throughout the season, I will look back at history involving some major league clubs and their individuals.

Today to start the series of looking back at greats, some comments about Stan Musial concerning he and the Dodgers.

In Brooklyn, where the Dodgers played through the 1957 season, there were great but rabid Dodgers’ fans. Some opposing players were “less than popular.”

Stan Musial of the Cardinals was respected. He seemed to do always do well, “wearing out” Dodgers’ pitching.

As the story goes, when he came up some fan said “here comes that man again” and eventually Stan became Stan “The Man” Musial.

Not only was Stan “The Man” when it came to baseball, as an all time great player, he was a truly good and giving man and oh do we need more like him.