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Photo gallery: The life of Stan Musial

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Two Cardinal rookies, who started out this year in the International League with the Rochester Redwings, have been called by St. Louis to finish the season with them. Erwin Dusak, left, and Stan Musial, right, don their new uniforms, Sept. 16, 1941. Both are outfielders although Musial began as a pitcher. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, tabbed by baseball experts as one of the brightest of great rookies, is shown April 10, 1942. An outfielder, Musial ended his spring training in a blaze of glory. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis Cards? outfielder and National League batting champion, gets a taste of the dinner to come from his pretty wife, Lillian, at their home in Donora, Penn., Oct. 19, 1943 where Stan has settled down during the off season to ordinary home life and a job as a freight car checker at the zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Outfielder of St. Louis Cardinals, Stan Musial poses in St. Louis, June 1, 1943. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Dixie Walker, right, Brooklyn Dodgers outfielder, shows his bat to Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder at Ebbets Field in the Brooklyn borough of New York, Sept. 26, 1944. (AP Photo/John Lindsay)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>AP</em></div>Stan Musial (left), former star outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals, is welcomed to the Bainbridge Naval Training Center by Ensign Gerry O'Brien, Providence, R.I. after his induction into the Navy, January 23, 1945. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>AP</em></div>Outfielder Stan Musial demonstrates the form that won him the National League batting championship in 1943 as he displays graceful swinging form at bat in game with the Phillies at Shibe Park, Philadelphia, Pa., May 22, 1946. (AP Photo/Warren M. Winterbottom)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Ted Williams, left, of the Boston Red Sox and Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, chosen most valuable players in their respective leagues last season, get together in Red Sox dressing room in Sarasota, Florida, March 15, 1947.(AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals outfielder who is currently leading the National League in six divisions, signs an autograph for Bob Slater of Chicago at Wrigley Field in Chicago, Aug. 17, 1948, just before the Cubs-Cards game. (AP Photo/Edward Kitch)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals in action giving batting pose on May 16, 1949. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis outfielder, accepts a car given to him by the people of Donora, Penn., Aug. 21, 1949. Stan was honored with the presentation before the second game of a double header. Al Zeffiro, representing the merchants of Donora, Pa., Stan?s home town, presented him with the keys. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals' first baseman, picks out a bat before the start of the game with Cincinnati at Sportsman's Park in St. Louis, May 12, 1950. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals, wears a Bavarian hat loaded with souvenirs and capped with an eagle feather at Garmish-Partenkirchen, Germany, where he and a group of baseball players are participating in a GI baseball school, Feb. 11, 1951. Musial was the top batter in the National League in 1950. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals and National League All-Stars crosses home plate as teammate Jackie Robinson (42) waits to greet him after he belted a home run which helped National defeat the American League team, 8-3, in annual All-Star contest at Briggs Stadium, Detroit, Mich., on July 10, 1951. American League catcher (left) is Larry (Yogi) Berra of the N.T. Yanks, Yanks.Umpire not identified. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, Cardinal's slugging outfielder, receives silver bat from National League President Warren Giles in ceremony before the start of the Cards-Brooklyn game which was rained out, July 13, 1952. Musial was awarded the bat for winning the National League batting championship in 1851. Musial had a batting average of 355 last season to top the hitters in his league for the fifth time. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>St. Louis Cardinals' Stan Musial is shown, March 11, 1953. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, holding three bats to indicate that he hit three homers in first game of a double header against the New York Giants on May 2, 1954, eats a sandwich in the dressing room before the start of the second game of double header. Musial had a perfect 4 for 4 and drove in six runs during the game. It was the first time in his Major league career that he hit three homers in a single game. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan ?The Man? Musial of the St. Louis Cardinals holds bat with which he hit his 300th major league home run as he sits in clubhouse at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn, New York, June 3, 1955, after game, won by the Dodgers, 12-5. The big blow for Musial came with two mates aboard in the fifth inning. It was Musial?s eighth homer of the year and he joined a select group of 12 players who have hit 300 or more four baggers in their big league careers. (AP Photo/Marty Lederhandler)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial completes a throw, July 18, 1956. (AP Photo/Gene Smith)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, shown batting on March 16, 1957. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial of the Cardinals and catcher Hal Neeman of the Chicago Cubs watch the ball sail to the pavilion roof at Busch Stadium in St. Louis, April 18, 1958, as Musial sets a new National League record of 5045 total bases. The previous record of 5041 total bases was set by Mel Ott during his 22 year career ending in 1947. It was the second hit and first homer of the season for Musial who is starting his 16th season. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Cardinal slugger Stan Musial, left, holds a silver bat as four of his guests hold up the number 3,000 at party given in honor of Musial who is approaching another milestone in his career, May 12, 1958 in St. Louis. The guests are, from left to right: Senator Stuart Symington, Governor James Blair, Warren Giles, president of National league, and August A. Busch, Jr., owner of Cardinals. Musial had five for eight in double-header with Chicago yesterday to bring his total to 2998. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>AP</em></div>Mrs. Mary Musial, mother of Stan Musial (right), first baseman for the St. Louis Cardinals, smiles happily as baseball fans from Donora, Pa. (Musial's home town), and Pittsburgh honor Stan with a 'Stan Musial Night,' May 24, 1958, before the Pittsburgh St. Louis game. Stan, the eighth man to get 3,000 hits, repaid the fans for their gift by getting three for four as his team lost to Pittsburg 3 to 2. (AP Photo/Walter Stein)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, of the St. Louis Cardinals appears quite happy as he started his spring training on Feb. 27, 1959 in St. Petersburg, Florida. The holder of 35 National League records hit.337 last year. His home is in Donora, Pennsylvania. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, of the St. Louis Cards, poses beside the statue of Honus Wagner on June 4, 1959 in Pittsburgh, after today?s game in which Musial smacked his 651st two-base hit to tie the national league record set by Wagner with the Pittsburgh pirates. Musial double went to left field wall, within 100 feet of where statue stands in park adjoining Forbes field? pirates won over Cardinals. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinals star is the high kicker as this is part of new conditioning exercises at the Cardinals training camp in St. Petersburg, Florida on March 2, 1960. Musial started his training with the full squad yesterday. Musial has been with the Cardinals since 1941. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>St. Louis Cardinals' great Stan Musial hands an autographed baseball to Phillip Getchel of Milwaukee as the Cards were in Milwaukee for a game with the Braves, June 5, 1961. Phillip has been restricted by a heart condition and one of his fondest dreams came true when he got to meet Musial. Phillip?s brother Greg looks on. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, St. Louis Cardinal star, receives a plaque from Mayor Albert Delsandro of Donora, Pa., before the Pittsburgh-St. Louis game in Pittsburgh, Sept. 17, 1961. Musial was honored on the 20th anniversary of his first day in the Major Leagues. The Cardinal outfielder is a native of Donora. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>The three big Ms of baseball, Roger Maris, Stan Musial and Mickey Mantle pose together prior to their exhibition ball game in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, March 28, 1962. Maris and Mantle are with the New York Yankees and Musial is with the St. Louis Cardinals. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>St. Louis Cardinals star Stan Musial receives a trophy naming him, ?The greatest player of all time?, from a group representing the Old Timers Baseball Association. Musial, seven-time National League batting champion, was leading the National League batting race with a.344 average before game in Chicago?s Wrigley Field on June 25, 1962. Left to right, are: Mike Hechinger, former Cub catcher and President of the association.; Musial; Fred Lindstrom, former New York Giant?s player, and Bill Kavanagh, vice-press., of the group. (AP Photo/Charles Knoblock)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial is outfielder for the St. Louis Cardinals (baseball team), signs autographs in March 1963 at Spring training. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>In what is believed to be the first time a team of umpires posed with a competing ball player, Stan ?The Man? Musial met with, left to right, Frank Walsh, Paul Pryor, Frank Secory and Ken Burkhardt near the umpires? dressing room on Sept. 22, 1963 in Cincinnati before game with Cincinnati. Musial, in his final National League season, has never be tossed from any game in his 22-year career. Today?s game was the final one these umpires worked a game in which Musial competed. ?This is one picture I really want,? Secory said and to other three chimed in with ?that goes for us, also. (AP Photo/Gene Smith)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Standing with wife, Lillian, and daughter, Geraldine, Stan Musial brushes his eye, Sept. 29, 1963 in St. Louis, Missouri, during ceremonies marking his final day as a St. Louis Cards player. The Musials are seated near home plate; the ?thanks Stan? sign is next to the scoreboard in center field. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial visits his former teammates at the St. Louis Cardinals spring training camp, March 23, 1964. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>St. Louis Cardinals all-time great, Stan Musial, now a vice President in the organization, gets tossed around a circle of players as he joins them in physical exercises at spring training camp in St. Petersburg on March 4, 1965. Musial arrived in Florida last night and will assist during spring training. (AP Photo/PS)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>These three great athletes, representing three different sports, have a conversation at the New York Sports Show at the Hotel New Yorker in New York on Jan. 17, 1966. Left to right are, Rocky Graziano, former middleweight boxing champion, Stan Musial, Vice President of the St. Louis Cardinals Baseball Club, and Joe Namath, New York Jets quarterback. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Roger Maris, traded from the New York Yankees, is carrying the wood, and the vice president and general manager in the casual hat is Stan Musial in this view at the St. Louis Cardinals camp in St. Petersburg, Florida March 7, 1967. Maris has been handicapped by injuries to his knees and hand the past two seasons, but has been pronounced fit to continue his career. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger, address a large crowd outside Busch Memorial Stadium, Sunday, August 5, 1968 in St. Louis, where a statue honor him was unveiled. His wife, Lil, and mother, Mary (center) unveiled the statue. (AP Photo)

<div style='float:right;width:100%;' align='right'><em>ASSOCIATED PRESS</em></div>Stan Musial, National Baseball Hall of Fame plaque, Cooperstown, NY. He was elected in 1969.(AP Photo)

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Published: Saturday, January 19, 2013, 8:26 p.m.
Updated: Monday, January 21, 2013

Stan Musial, one of baseball's greatest hitters and a Hall of Famer with the St. Louis Cardinals for more than two decades, died Saturday. He was 92.

Stan the Man, a Donora native, won seven National League batting titles, was a three-time MVP and helped the Cardinals capture three World Series championships in the 1940s.

Take a look back at Musial's life in these archive photos.

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