Stan "The Man"

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Sun Jan 18, 2009 2:25 pm

I think it says a lot about the Brooklyn fans how they treated Stan Musial. We very easily could have booed him and hated him. The Brooklyn fans knew greatness when they saw it and always treated Stan special. A tribute to baseball knowledge.

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 19, 2009 2:37 am

There was a rumor of a trade of Gil Hodges and another player for Stan back in 1951.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:53 am

Somehow 1950's baseball was perfect with Musial in St. Louie and Gil in Flatbush.

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:53 am

How could there be the Dodgers without Gil at 1st base, anyway Stan wouldn't have looked good in Dodger blue lol.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:35 am

If I coulda had both of those guys, I woulda stuck Stan in leftfield and watched my club clinch in August.....lol

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Wed Jan 21, 2009 1:55 am

Your right Pete, Stan wasn't a bad outfielder and we needed a leftfielder.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 4:41 pm

Can you imagine Musial in leftfield on those Dodger teams?????? I could have been a 20 game winner or a HOF manager with that group.

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 5:48 pm

I wonder what it would take to get him without giving up Gil, we would have been a super power house with him in leftfield. We would have won more the one WS too with Stan batting 4th.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Thu Jan 22, 2009 9:26 pm

Suffice to say, we would have had to give up A LOT for Musial, but just think (I know I'm off topic here) what the Bums woulda done with CLEMENTE in their outfield ????????????????

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 3:35 am

You're not off topic Pete, Clemente is a great topic. The morons running the Dodgers thought they could hide Clemente at Montreal, but Branch Rickey was a little too smart for them. I can just imagine Roberto in leftfield for a few years then taking over for Furillo in right, we would have had him from 1955 on.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Fri Jan 23, 2009 5:22 am

Rickey knew about Clemente. Couldn't hide him, but the could have and should have PROTECTED him by adding him to the 40 man roster. Years before this happened, Rickey "gave" McPhail Pete Reiser (at age 19) to "hide" in the Dodger farm system for 2 years. Durocher played Reiser in Spring Training (1940). Pistol Pete went 7-for-7, reaching base 11 straight times. McPhail had promised Rickey to return Reiser to the Cardinals after 2 years in the Dodger farm system. That, of course, never happened. Reiser went to Elmira in the spring of '40, but of course returned to Brooklyn soon after.

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Sat Jan 24, 2009 4:43 am

Good story Pete I didn't know about Reiser being loaned to the Dodgers.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Sun Jan 25, 2009 7:07 pm

kramer_47 wrote:

Good story Pete I didn't know about Reiser being loaned to the Dodgers.

Yeah, it's covered extensively in "Bums".............

kramer_47 · **Posted:** Mon Jan 26, 2009 3:58 am

I have the book I need to look at it again, thank you.

penncentralpete · **Posted:** Thu Jun 11, 2009 2:21 pm

Stan the Man....................

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