Saturday around five p.m. the St. Louis Cardinals announced the passing of a Cardinal legend, Stan-The Man-Musial. At Busch Stadium in downtown St. Louis there is a memorial that is growing everyday underneath the Stan Musial statue.
Plenty of Cardinal fans have visited the statue, especially with the Cardinals winter-warm up going on at the nearby Hyatt Hotel.
Stan Musial was a great baseball player, most believe he’s in the top five whoever played, the game. But for those who knew him or met him say that he was an even better person.
Musial played all of his major league career with the St. Louis Cardinals, all 22 years.
His lifetime batting average was .331.
He hit 475 home runs during his career.
He played in 12,717 games.
His on-base percentage was 417.
He holds just about every cardinal hitting record.
The Cardinals announced Monday that the public visitation will be Thursday from two-to-eight p-m. a funeral mass will be at 11 a-m Saturday at the cathedral basilica.
Following the mass, the funeral procession will travel to Busch Stadium where the family will lay a wreath at the base of the Musial statue.
LUTV’s reporter Dave Curry
