Baseball Bat used by Stan Musial for his 3,000th Hit
date: label: date made
content: 1958
name: label: associated institution
content: Saint Louis Cardinals
label: user
content: Musial, Stan
label: maker
content: Hillerich & Bradsby Co.
label: maker
content: Louisville Slugger
notes: label: Description
content: St. Louis Cardinal Stan "The Man" Musial (b. 1920) used this Louisville Slugger to collect his 3,000th hit on May 13, 1958, in Chicago's Wrigley Field. The umpires later presented him with the bat.
label: Description
content: Stan "The Man" Musial (1920-2013) played first base for the St. Louis Cardinals from 1941 to 1963, winning seven National League batting titles, finishing his career with an amazing .331 batting average. Extraordinarily consistent at the plate, Musial retired with 3,630 hits, fourth most in baseball history, as well as 475 home runs and 1,951 runs batted in.
label: Description
content: Playing outfield for the Cardinals, the native of Pennsylvania won three National League Most Valuable Player trophies (1943, 1946, and 1948,) and led St. Louis to three world championships (1942, 1944, and 1946.) The 24 time All Star was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969.
label: Description
content: Musial, considered one of the sport's most courteous and generous stars, maintained close ties to the St. Louis community and has been involved in numerous philanthropic and goodwill efforts. President Obama, who awarded Musial the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2011, said "Stan remains to this day, an icon, untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate."
place: label: Place Made
content: United States: Kentucky, Louisville
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: web subject
content: Sports
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition
content: Many Voices, One Nation
label: Exhibition Location
content: National Museum of American History
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1979.0620.01
label: accession number
content: 1979.0620
label: catalog number
content: 1979.0620.01
objectType: label: Object Name
content: bat
label: Object Name
content: baseball bat
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: wood (overall material)
label: Physical Description
content: metal, brass (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 34 1/2 in x 2 1/4 in; 87.63 cm x 5.715 cm