Musial : from Stash to Stan the Man /
"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,...
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| Natura: | Licensed eBooks |
| Lingua: | inglese |
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Columbia, Mo. :
University of Missouri Press,
©2001.
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| Serie: | Missouri biography series.
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| Accesso online: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=113920 |
Sommario:
- 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.