Baseball, signed by Stan Musial
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: signer
content: Musial, Stan
notes: label: Description
content: Baseball signed by St. Louis Cardinal great Stan Musial (b.1920) in 1963. 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.
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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."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: name of sport or game
content: Baseball
label: level of sport
content: Professional
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content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Autographs
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content: Culture and the Arts: Sport and Leisure
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content: Autographed Baseballs
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: Edwin A. Rowlands
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 1983.0347.02
label: accession number
content: 1983.0347
label: catalog number
content: 1983.0347.02
objectType: label: Object Name
content: autographed baseball
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content: ink (overall material)
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content: cork (overall material)
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content: wool (overall material)
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content: horsehide (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 3 in; 7.62 cm