His third MVP award came in 1948, when he finished one home run shy of winning baseball’s Triple Crown. That year he earned his second MVP award and third World Series title. When he returned to baseball in 1946, Stan Musial resumed his consistent hitting. Musial won his second World Series championship in 1944, then missed the entire 1945 season while serving with the Navy. He was also named to the NL All-Star squad for the first time he appeared in every All-Star game in every subsequent season he played. The following year, he led the NL in six different offensive categories and earned his first MVP award. In his first full season, 1942, the Cardinals won the World Series. Noted for his unique batting stance, he quickly established himself as a consistent and productive hitter.
Louis Cardinals as a pitcher in 1938, Musial was converted into an outfielder prior to his major league debut in 1941. Signed to a professional contract by the St. Stan Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania, where he frequently played baseball, whether informally or in organized settings, eventually playing on the baseball team at Donora High School. He also shares the major league record for the most All-Star Games played (24) with Hank Aaron and Willie Mays. Louis to three World Series championship titles. A seven-time batting champion with identical totals of 1,815 hits at home and on the road, he was named the National League’s (NL) Most Valuable Player (MVP) three times and led St. His 6,134 total bases remained a major league record until surpassed by Hank Aaron, and his hit total still ranks fourth all-time, and is the highest by any player who spent his career with only one team. 331 over his career and set National League (NL) records for career hits (3,630), runs batted in (1,951), games played (3,026), at bats (10,972), runs scored (1,949) and doubles (725), most of which were later broken by Pete Rose his 475 career home runs then ranked second in NL history behind Mel Ott’s total of 511. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame in the inaugural class of 2014. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Stan Musial was a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, and was also selected to the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 19 to 1963. Stanley Frank “Stan” Musial (/ˈmjuːziəl/ or /ˈmjuːʒəl/ born Stanisław Franciszek Musiał Novem– January 19, 2013), nicknamed “Stan the Man”, was an American Major League Baseball (MLB) outfielder and first baseman.
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