I don't ever remember getting booed in Ebbets Field. ''That's how I got my nickname I could hear the fans saying it,'' he said. In only 11 games.''ĭodger fans were saying, ''Here comes that man again'' whenever he strode to the plate from the on-deck circle. ''In 1948,'' he said, ''I'm told now that I hit 8 doubles, 1 triple, 4 homers and drove in 12 runs. 535 at Ebbets Field the year before he hit. 359 there with 222 hits, 48 doubles, 13 triples and 38 homers while driving in 127 runs and scoring 141 runs.ĭuring the 1949 season, Musial uncoiled from his corkscrew stance to hit. In 163 games, only one game more than today's schedule, over 15 seasons at Ebbets Field with the St. Now 69 years old, Stan Musial will join Bobby Thomson, Tommy Henrich and Ralph Kiner in the ''outstanding opponent'' category of the Dodger Hall of Fame, which will also induct Billy Loes, Rube Walker, Buddy Hassett and Jake Daubert tonight at the Glen Terrace in Flatbush.īut for Stan the Man, ''outstanding opponent'' is an understatement.
If it didn't come out of his hand that fast, I knew it was a curveball.'' I just went by knowing the speed of a pitcher's fastball.
People keep telling me they read that I could tell the type of pitch by the rotation of the seams. ''If the count was 2 and 0 or 3 and 1, I was set for the fastball, but I wasn't guessing. I was surprised when he told me he guessed all the time.'' ''Did you guess?'' Musial was asked. ''But at Cooperstown once I asked him if he ever guessed what pitch was coming.
''Ted Williams was the greatest hitter in our era he really studied pitchers,'' Musial was saying now. Apparently nobody has more respect for a legend than another legend. In his wisdom, Williams knew that his appearance might dilute Musial's salute, just as Musial would have avoided the possibility of upstaging Williams at a function for him. ''Thanks,'' said Williams, ''but it's Stan's night.'' Not long ago, Ted Williams was invited to stop by tonight's dinner celebrating Stan Musial's induction into the Brooklyn Dodger Hall of Fame.
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