When I was working on the unauthorized biography 'Stan Musial: An American Life,' which came out in 2011, old opponents recalled how Musial knew their names after they had been in the majors only a few days.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I love when people in culture show up on fictional TV shows. I don't mind at all being a name from the '90s.
I know somebody from university who's called Phil Collins, and I think there's something terribly unfortunate about sharing a name with somebody who either is famous or becomes famous.
My father had the same name as me but he was known as Alec. He was a member of the House of Representatives.
In the black culture, certain kids are given nicknames that they roll with forever; the nicknames outweigh their real names. I'm one of those scenarios.
It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by 'The Sporting News' as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
I nicknamed everyone in the gym. It was easier than remembering their names.
I went through baseball as 'a player to be named later.'
In both 'Tigerman' and my first book, 'The Gone-Away World,' there are characters who never really get names. They're too fundamentally who they are to be bound by a name, so I couldn't give them one.
Never throughout history has a man who lived a life of ease left a name worth remembering.
God is the Man, and there's another Man, Stan 'The Man' Musial in St. Louis.