Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 345 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Missouri biography series |
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Missouri biography series.
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Contents |
Growing up poor in the "home of champions" -- Rickey's farm -- Rookie supreme -- Pennants and wartime -- Return to glory -- A troubling year -- Career year and near miss -- Player of the decade -- Anatomy of a superstar -- Aging superstar -- Keeping busy -- Hometown roots |
Summary |
"Musial: From Stash to Stan the Man is the most comprehensive assessment of baseball legend Stan Musial's life and career to date. Musial, better known as Stan the Man, was born in 1920 to a Polish immigrant father and a second-generation Slovak mother in Donora, Pennsylvania. As a youth, however, he went by the nickname Stash, which his closest friends have continued to call him." "In this first scholarly biography of Musial, James N. Giglio places the St. Louis Cardinal star within the context of the times - the Great Depression and wartime and postwar America - and the issues then prevalent in professional baseball, particularly race and the changing economics of the game. Giglio illuminates how the times shaped Musial and delves further into his popular image as a warm, unfailingly gracious role model known for good sportsmanship and devotion to family."--Jacket |
Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-334) and index |
Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
Subject |
Musial, Stan, 1920-2013.
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SUBJECT |
Musial, Stan, 1920-2013 fast |
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St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) -- History
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SUBJECT |
St. Louis Cardinals (Baseball team) fast |
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Baseball players -- United States -- Biography
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Sports.
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SPORTS & RECREATION -- Baseball -- History.
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Baseball players
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United States
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Genre/Form |
Biographies
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History
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Form |
Electronic book
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LC no. |
2001023365 |
ISBN |
0826263135 |
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9780826263131 |
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