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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 1,940,597 page views. His biography is available in 21 different languages on Wikipedia. Stan Musial is the 25th most popular baseball player (down from 22nd in 2019), the 7,191st most popular biography from United States (down from 7,024th in 2019) and the 22nd most popular American Baseball Player.

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  • 45.57

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 21

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.80

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among BASEBALL PLAYERS

Among baseball players, Stan Musial ranks 25 out of 74Before him are Sandy Koufax, Reggie Jackson, Roger Maris, Walter Johnson, Randy Johnson, and Satchel Paige. After him are Roger Clemens, Frank Robinson, Rogers Hornsby, Mark McGwire, Carl Yastrzemski, and Tom Seaver.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1920, Stan Musial ranks 310Before him are Jean Marcel Honoré, Enzo Biagi, Zeno Colò, Chushiro Hayashi, William Tenn, and Claude Cheysson. After him are Olle Åhlund, Ella Raines, Gino Cappello, Neville Brand, Idea Vilariño, and Cecilia Colledge. Among people deceased in 2013, Stan Musial ranks 324Before him are Sakine Cansız, Peter Gilmore, Amar Bose, Martí de Riquer i Morera, Jean Stapleton, and María de Villota. After him are Walt Bellamy, Kumar Pallana, Stanisław Nagy, Paul Bearer, Abdul Quader Molla, and Hartmut Briesenick.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Stan Musial ranks 7,191 out of 18,182Before him are Lyman Lemnitzer (1899), Barry McGuire (1935), Richard Riehle (1948), Patty McCormack (1945), Mary-Claire King (1946), and Richard Mulligan (1932). After him are Terry Kinney (1954), Tom Peters (1942), George Tenet (1953), Ted Chiang (1967), George Crook (1828), and Riddick Bowe (1967).

Among BASEBALL PLAYERS In United States

Among baseball players born in United States, Stan Musial ranks 22Before him are Sandy Koufax (1935), Reggie Jackson (1946), Roger Maris (1934), Walter Johnson (1887), Randy Johnson (1963), and Satchel Paige (1906). After him are Roger Clemens (1962), Frank Robinson (1935), Rogers Hornsby (1896), Mark McGwire (1963), Carl Yastrzemski (1939), and Tom Seaver (1944).