426 in 12 games late in the season for St. In 1941, he reached the majors despite starting the season on a lowly minor league team in Springfield, Mo. “My arm never did get better,” he told the St. The next season in Daytona Beach, Fla., Musial hurt his left shoulder diving for a ball in center field, ending his pitching career. But another player’s injury gave him a chance to play outfield, and he saved his career by hitting. He was so wild in Williamson, W.Va., the lowest level of the Cardinals’ minor league system, that his manager suggested he be released.
He could have played college basketball on scholarship but signed with the Cardinals as a pitcher in 1938. In high school, Musial was a two-sport star. 21, 1920, in Donora, Pa., to Lukasz and Mary Lancos Musial, the fifth of their six children. Don Newcombe, a star pitcher for the Dodgers, told Sports Illustrated in 2010: “I could have rolled the ball up there against Musial, and he would have pulled out a golf club and hit it out.”
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