By Allen St. John, Contributor If last Friday, someone asked “who is baseball’s greatest living hitter,” even the most rabid baseball fans wouldn’t have immediately said “Stan Musial.” Musial, who died on Saturday at the age of 92,l had a long and storied career, and was generally loved by friend and foe alike. But he was famous, not for making more than the president (like Babe Ruth), marrying Marilyn Monroe (like Joe DiMaggio), spitting on fans (like Ted Williams) or going on epic benders (like Mickey Mantle.) but for hitting a baseball. And for better or for worse, that fame proved somewhat less enduring than those of the other denizens of baseball’s pantheon.
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