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Remembering Stan 'the Man' Musial Through Books

Check out books about the late baseball player Stan Musial.

Baseball Hall of Famer and St. Louis Walk of Famer, Stan Musial, died Saturday January 19th of natural causes at his home in Ladue. He was 92 years old.  Musial played 22 seasons with our home team the St. Louis Cardinals. He is a baseball legend, 3 time World Series Champion, and is immortalized in two separate statues at Busch Stadium.

Check out the following books from your Kirkwood Public Library to learn more about this great man who will be missed.

  1. Stan Musial: An American Life by George Vecsey
  2. Stan Musial: Baseball’s Perfect Knight: A Story Told From the Pages of the St. Louis Post Dispatch
  3. Stan the Man: The Life and Times of Stan Musial by Wayne Stewart
  4. Stan Musial “The Man’s” Own Story as told to Bob Broeg
  5. Stan Musial by John Grabowski

Courtney Flesch is the Teen/IT assistant at the Kirkwood Public Library. She is currently reading Looking for Alaska by John Green

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