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MUSIAL 1:40
A
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Colt Stadium at Houston is bul ging with 23 thousand
fans, who have come to see Stanley Frank Musial play
his last baseball in the southwest. A Houston
sportswriter probably summed it up as well as anyone,
when he said "To call Frank Musial a great ball player
is the same as calling President Kennedy a democrat.
Anything you say about him is an understatement," The
recently
Cardinal outfielder, who announced he would
retire at the end of this season, says his only regret
domed
is that he won't be able to play in Houston's
air-conditioned stadium. After the stadium is com-
pleted, and the Colts should need an old pinch hitter,
Musical says "I might make a comeback." When Stan the
Man calls it quits September 29th, he will have played
22 years in the major leagues, all in the uniform of a
Musical
St Louis Cardinal. 4K is responsible for more
he's a shoo-in
records than Mitch Miller, and M candi.-
cleanup
date for baseball's hall of fame. Musial bats mfor the Cardinals, in Stan Musial night at Houston.
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WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.). [News Script: Musial], script, August 25, 1963; (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc982119/m1/1/?q=%22~1%22~1: accessed July 16, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting UNT Libraries Special Collections.