Stan the Man's Hit Record
date: label: date made
content: 1963
name: label: recording artist
content: Musial, Stan
label: Associated Name
content: St. Louis Cardinals
label: manufacturer
content: RCA Victor
notes: label: Description
content: RCA Records <i>Stan the Man's Hit Record </i> is a 1963 instructional 33 1/3 LP featuring baseball player Stan Musial. The record, along with an instructional booklet, were offered as a promotion at Phillips 66 gast stations. <i>Hit Record </i> features Musial and his St. Louis Cardinal teammate Joe Garagiola offering instructions on how to be a better batter, as well as featuring broadcasts of moments in Musial's career.
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."
label: Location
content: Currently not on view
topic: label: web subject
content: Sports
label: Subject
content: Baseball
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content: Culture and the Arts: Entertainment
creditLine: label: Credit Line
content: The Sam DeVincent Collection of American Sheet Music
dataSource: label: Data Source
content: National Museum of American History
identifier: label: ID Number
content: 2000.3053.0904
label: nonaccession number
content: 2000.3053
label: label number
content: PR-141
label: catalog number
content: 2000.3053.0904
objectType: label: Object Name
content: Sound Recording
physicalDescription: label: Physical Description
content: vinyl (overall material)
label: Measurements
content: overall: 12 in; x 30.48 cm