BASEBALL PLAYER

Stan Musial

1920 - 2013

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Stanley Frank Musial (; born Stanislaw Franciszek Musial; November 21, 1920 – January 19, 2013), nicknamed "Stan the Man", was an American baseball outfielder and first baseman. Widely considered to be one of the greatest and most consistent hitters in baseball history, Musial spent 22 seasons in Major League Baseball (MLB), playing for the St. Louis Cardinals, from 1941 to 1944 and from 1946 to 1963, before becoming a first-ballot inductee into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Stan Musial has received more than 1,923,350 page views. His biography is available in 22 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 21 in 2019). Stan Musial is the 23rd most popular baseball player (up from 25th in 2019), the 7,832nd most popular biography from United States (down from 7,176th in 2019) and the 20th most popular American Baseball Player.

Memorability Metrics

  • 1.9M

    Page Views (PV)

  • 46.44

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 22

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.77

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.89

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Page views of Stan Musials by language

Over the past year Stan Musial has had the most page views in the with 262,966 views, followed by Japanese (24,384), and Spanish (6,844). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Malagasy (105.33%), Finnish (70.57%), and Simple English (67.54%)

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Stan Musial ranks 23 out of 91. Before him are Yogi Berra, Sandy Koufax, Nolan Ryan, Roger Maris, Randy Johnson, and Alex Rodriguez. After him are Walter Johnson, Roger Clemens, Frank Robinson, Satchel Paige, Mark McGwire, and Rogers Hornsby.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Stan Musial ranks 344. Before him are Jean Marcel Honoré, Kamisese Mara, Bella Abzug, Idea Vilariño, Eugênio Sales, and Alf Kjellin. After him are Ragnhild Hveger, Leonid Shvartsman, Mykola Rudenko, Ralph Meeker, Yuri Nagibin, and Kenneth McAlpine. Among people deceased in 2013, Stan Musial ranks 355. Before him are Lidiya Vertinskaya, Lidiya Ponomarenko, Eddi Arent, Danièle Dupré, Joseph Paul Franklin, and Giuseppe Casari. After him are Lucyna Winnicka, Bill Smith, Phạm Duy, Giovanni Cheli, Denys de La Patellière, and Henry Taylor.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stan Musial ranks 7,832 out of 20,380. Before him are Cindy Williams (1947), Peter Jurasik (1950), Thomas Calabro (1959), Elisabeth Moss (1982), John Kundla (1916), and Paul Costello (1894). After him are Tina Knowles (1954), Julian Castro (1974), Walter Johnson (1887), Julieta Venegas (1970), Tom Peters (1942), and Helen Gallagher (1926).

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Stan Musial ranks 20. Before him are Yogi Berra (1925), Sandy Koufax (1935), Nolan Ryan (1947), Roger Maris (1934), Randy Johnson (1963), and Alex Rodriguez (1975). After him are Walter Johnson (1887), Roger Clemens (1962), Frank Robinson (1935), Satchel Paige (1906), Mark McGwire (1963), and Rogers Hornsby (1896).

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