Stan Musial was known as “The Man,” the Hall of Fame outfielder who finished his career with a .331 lifetime batting average.
Musial spent his entire 22-season Major League Baseball career with the St. Louis Cardinals, playing from 1941 through 1963, apart from his wartime military service. He won seven National League batting titles, three National League MVP Awards, and three World Series championships. His consistency made him one of baseball’s defining stars of the 1940s and 1950s.
Musial retired with 3,630 hits, 475 home runs, 1,951 runs batted in, and 725 doubles. His hits were unusually balanced: 1,815 came at home and 1,815 on the road. That even split became one of the most famous statistical details of his career.
Musial was inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. “The Man” refers to Musial, not fellow Cardinals legend Albert Pujols or another player with a similar nickname.