Editing Stan Musial (section)

==Honors and recognition==
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On August 4, 1968, a statue of Musial was erected outside of [[Busch Memorial Stadium]] on the northeast grounds of the St. Louis stadium.<ref name="Lansche200">[[#Lan94|Lansche 1994]]: pp. 199–200</ref> The statue was moved from its original location to the west side of the new [[Busch Stadium]] for its first season in 2006. Musial's statue is inscribed with a quote attributed to former baseball commissioner [[Ford Frick]]: "Here stands baseball's perfect warrior. Here stands baseball's perfect knight."<ref name=Lansche200 /> In 1968, Musial received the Golden Plate Award of the [[Academy of Achievement|American Academy of Achievement]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Golden Plate Awardees of the American Academy of Achievement|publisher=[[American Academy of Achievement]]|url=https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#sports|access-date=August 29, 2020|archive-date=December 15, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161215023909/https://achievement.org/our-history/golden-plate-awards/#sports|url-status=live}}</ref>

Musial was elected to the [[National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum|Baseball Hall of Fame]] in his first year of eligibility in {{bhofy|1969}}, when he was named on 93.2% of the ballots.<ref>[[#Lan94|Lansche 1994]]: 200–201</ref> He was ranked tenth on ''The Sporting News''{{'}} list of the 100 Greatest Baseball Players published in 1998.<ref>{{cite magazine|title=The Sporting News Selects Baseball's 100 Greatest Players|magazine=[[The Sporting News]]|date=April 26, 1999 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050416222917/http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-10.html |archive-date=April 16, 2005 |url=http://www.sportingnews.com/baseball/100/index-26.html}}</ref> He was also one of the 30 players selected to the [[Major League Baseball All-Century Team]], added by a special committee after he finished 11th in fan voting among outfielders.<ref>{{cite web|title=The All-Century Team|work=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]]|url=http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_history_moreinfo.jsp|access-date=February 15, 2007|archive-date=January 19, 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100119065808/http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/history/mlb_history_moreinfo.jsp|url-status=live}}</ref>

In 2022, as part of their SN Rushmore project, ''[[The Sporting News]]'' named Musial on their "St. Louis Mount Rushmore of Sports", along with fellow Cardinals [[Bob Gibson]] and [[Albert Pujols]], and [[St. Louis Blues]] hockey player [[Brett Hull]].<ref>{{cite news |last1=Fagan |first1=Ryan |title=St. Louis' GOAT Mountain of sports: Stan Musial, Albert Pujols, Brett Hull and Bob Gibson voted best of the best |url=https://www.sportingnews.com/us/mlb/news/st-louis-stan-musial-albert-pujols-brett-hull-and-bob-gibson/zdobrgzwoe4e60whrb1u5iui |work=[[The Sporting News]] |date=July 26, 2022}}</ref> That same year, [[MLB.com]] writers voted Musial as being the greatest player in Cardinals franchise history:

{{blockquote|Musial is one of the game's undisputed greats, and he played his entire 22-year career with the Cardinals. The outfielder and first baseman won three MVP Awards and finished second four other times. Musial won seven batting titles and led the league in runs five times, hits six times, doubles eight times, triples five times, RBIs twice, total bases six times and OPS seven times. He was a 24-time All-Star and a three-time World Series winner. He hit a career .331/.417/.559 and accumulated 128.3 WAR. Musial's No. 6 was the first number the Cardinals retired, and he became a first-ballot Hall of Famer in 1969.<ref>{{cite web |title=Every MLB team's greatest player ever |url=https://www.mlb.com/news/every-mlb-team-s-greatest-player |website=[[MLB.com]] |date=January 8, 2022}}</ref>}}

On June 14, 1973, Musial was the first inductee into the National Polish-American Hall of Fame, housed at St.&nbsp;Mary's College in Orchard Lake, Michigan. In 1989, he was inducted into the [[St. Louis Walk of Fame]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/stan-musial.html |title=St. Louis Walk of Fame – Stan Musial |access-date=December 13, 2009 |publisher=St. Louis Walk of Fame |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100415000042/http://www.stlouiswalkoffame.org/inductees/stan-musial.html |archive-date=April 15, 2010 |url-status=dead  }}</ref> Five years later, a baseball field was named after him in his hometown of Donora.<ref>[[#Gig01|Giglio 2001]]: 306</ref> In 2000, he was inducted into the [[Hall of Famous Missourians]], and a bronze bust depicting him is on permanent display in the rotunda of the [[Missouri State Capitol]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.house.mo.gov/famous.aspx?fm=30 |title=Hall of Famous Missourians |access-date=November 24, 2009 |publisher=Missouri House of Representatives |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100531204349/http://www.house.mo.gov/famous.aspx?fm=30 |archive-date=May 31, 2010 |url-status=live }}</ref> In January 2014, the Cardinals announced Musial among 22 former players and personnel to be inducted into the [[St. Louis Cardinals Hall of Fame Museum]] for the inaugural class of [[2014 St. Louis Cardinals season|2014]].<ref>{{cite news |author=Cardinals Press Release |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140118&content_id=66822534&vkey=pr_stl&c_id=stl |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140126165854/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20140118&content_id=66822534&vkey=pr_stl&c_id=stl |url-status=dead |archive-date=January 26, 2014 |title=Cardinals establish Hall of Fame & detail induction process |work=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]] |date=January 18, 2014 |access-date=January 29, 2014 }}</ref>

[[File:Musial and Obama Medal of Freedom.jpg|right|thumb|upright|President Barack Obama awards the 2010 Presidential Medal of Freedom to Stan Musial in a ceremony in the East Room of the White House February 15, 2011.]]

Nearly two decades after Musial retired, baseball statistician [[Bill James]] and the [[sabermetrics]] movement began providing new ways of comparing players across baseball history.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1720044-1,00.html |title=Q & A: Baseball Guru Bill James |access-date=July 9, 2010 |date=March 6, 2008 |magazine=[[Time (magazine)|TIME]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100423132308/http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1720044-1,00.html |archive-date=April 23, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> In 2001, James ranked Musial the tenth-greatest baseball player in history, and the second-best left fielder of all time.<ref>[[#Jam01|James 2001]]: 358,653</ref> According to [[Baseball-Reference.com]], he ranks fifth all-time among hitters on the Black Ink Test, and third all-time on the Gray Ink Test—measures designed to compare players of different eras.<ref name=stats1 /><ref>[[#Jam95|James 1995]]: 65–67</ref> He ranks first on Baseball-Reference's Hall of Fame Monitor Test, and is tied for second in the Hall of Fame Career Standards Test.<ref name=stats1 /> Despite his statistical accomplishments, he is sometimes referred to as the most underrated or overlooked athlete in modern American sports history.<ref name="Stark07">[[#Sta07|Stark 2007]]: 150</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.espn.com/page2/s/list/alltimeunderrated.html |title=The List: Underrated all-time athletes |access-date=February 28, 2009 |last=Merron |first=Jeff |year=2007 |website=[[ESPN]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090225112812/http://espn.go.com/page2/s/list/alltimeunderrated.html |archive-date=February 25, 2009 |url-status=live }}</ref> For instance, in his analysis of baseball's under- and overrated players in 2007, sportswriter [[Jayson Stark]] said, "I can't think of any all-time great in any sport who gets left out of more who's-the-greatest conversations than Stan Musial."<ref name=Stark07 />

Musial threw out the first pitch in the fifth game of the [[2006 World Series]] and delivered the [[ceremonial first pitch]] ball to President [[Barack Obama]] at the [[2009 Major League Baseball All-Star Game]].<ref>{{cite web |last=Leach |first=Matthew |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090714&content_id=5877144&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl |title=Musial part of special moment at Classic: Cards' great hands ball to Obama after entering field on cart |work=[[Major League Baseball |MLB.com]] |date=July 14, 2009 |access-date=July 15, 2009 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090716183921/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090714&content_id=5877144&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl |archive-date=July 16, 2009  }}</ref> A "Stan the Man" day was held in his honor by the Cardinals on May 18, 2008.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080518&content_id=2725475&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl |title=Musial honored before Rays finale: Hall of Famer memorialized with statue at Busch Stadium |access-date=February 25, 2009 |last=Hurwitz |first=Lee |date=May 18, 2008 |work=[[Major League Baseball |MLB.com]]  |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080520004616/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20080518&content_id=2725475&vkey=news_stl&fext=.jsp&c_id=stl |archive-date=May 20, 2008  }}</ref> In 2010, another one of the Cardinals' greatest sluggers, [[Albert Pujols]] said he didn't want to be called "The Man", even in Spanish ("El Hombre"), because "There is one man that gets that respect, and that is Stan Musial."<ref name="TimesObit">{{Cite news |last=Goldstein |first=Richard |author-link=Richard Goldstein (writer, born 1942) |date=January 20, 2013 |title=Stan Musial, Gentlemanly Slugger and Cardinals' Stan the Man, Dies at 92 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/sports/baseball/baseball-great-stan-musial-dies-at-92.html?hpw |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170812143636/http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/20/sports/baseball/baseball-great-stan-musial-dies-at-92.html?hpw |archive-date=August 12, 2017 |access-date=January 23, 2013 |work=The New York Times}}</ref> Also in 2010, the Cardinals launched a campaign to build support for awarding Musial the [[Presidential Medal of Freedom]] for his lifetime of achievement and service.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/fan_forum/standforstan_index.jsp |title=St. Louis Cardinals Stand for Stan |access-date=May 30, 2009 |work=[[Major League Baseball|MLB.com]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100528171437/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/stl/fan_forum/standforstan_index.jsp |archive-date=May 28, 2010 |url-status=dead }}</ref> The campaign realized its goal, and on February 15, 2011, Musial was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama<ref>{{cite web |url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/17/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients |title=President Obama Names Presidential Medal of Freedom Recipient |author=Office of the Press Secretary |date=November 17, 2010 |via=[[NARA|National Archives]] |work=[[whitehouse.gov]] |access-date=July 22, 2011 |archive-date=January 26, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170126074451/https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2010/11/17/president-obama-names-presidential-medal-freedom-recipients |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110214&content_id=16635394&vkey=news_stl&c_id=stl |title=Musial receives high honor from President: 'A beloved pillar,' Obama says while awarding Medal of Freedom |first=Barry M. |last=Bloom |work=[[Major League Baseball |MLB.com]]  |date=February 15, 2011 |access-date=February 16, 2011 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110217012303/http://stlouis.cardinals.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20110214&content_id=16635394&vkey=news_stl&c_id=stl |archive-date=February 17, 2011  }}</ref> who called him "an icon untarnished, a beloved pillar of the community, a gentleman you'd want your kids to emulate."<ref>{{cite web | first=R.B. |last=Fallstrom|title=Cardinals Hall of Famer Stan Musial Dies at Age 92 | work=[[ABC News (United States)|ABC News]] | date=January 20, 2013| url=https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/cardinals-hall-famer-stan-musial-dies-age-92-18260677|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130123070613/https://abcnews.go.com/Sports/wireStory/cardinals-hall-famer-stan-musial-dies-age-92-18260677|archive-date=January 23, 2013 | access-date=January 19, 2015}}</ref>

On October 18, 2012, Musial made his final appearance at Busch Stadium,<ref>{{cite news|title=Gallery: Stan Musial's surprise appearance at Busch|newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|date=January 19, 2013|url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/gallery-stan-musials-surprise-appearance-at-busch/collection_933c45e3-9b5e-5cd0-a761-9b790a47727c.html|access-date=March 17, 2021|archive-date=May 28, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200528184954/https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/gallery-stan-musials-surprise-appearance-at-busch/collection_933c45e3-9b5e-5cd0-a761-9b790a47727c.html|url-status=live}}</ref> riding in a golf cart around the field before Game 4 of the [[2012 National League Championship Series|National League Championship Series]]. Musial stopped at both dugouts and greeted [[San Francisco Giants]] manager [[Bruce Bochy]] and Cardinals manager [[Mike Matheny]].<ref>{{cite news|last=Goold|first=Derrick|title=Stan The Man makes surprise appearance|newspaper=[[St. Louis Post-Dispatch]]|date=October 18, 2012|url=https://www.stltoday.com/sports/baseball/professional/stan-the-man-makes-surprise-appearance/article_8cda4bc0-1980-11e2-aa31-001a4bcf6878.html|access-date=October 30, 2021}}</ref> The Cardinals would go on to win Game 4 by a score of 8–3, but lost the pennant to the Giants.<ref>{{cite web|title=2012 NLCS: San Francisco Giants over St. Louis Cardinals (4–3)|website=Baseball-Reference.com |url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/postseason/2012_NLCS.shtml}}</ref>