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Tommy Henrich and Stan Musial, at the moment baseball's leading indispensable men, are alike in temperament and talent-except that Musial cannot sing.* Both are southpaws. Both are versatile outfielders, who have filled in at first base in emergencies (and forthwith won rank among the best first-basemen in their leagues). Unlike many other stars, they are specially distinguished by players and sportwriters as "old pros," team players without ego or flamboyance...
...give them orders about getting in shape; they trained themselves. Many a player turns up at camp hog-fat; Musial, who had put himself on a winter schedule of two meals a day, reported five pounds underweight and built up to his normal 175. When the season began, Stan Musial dug in at the plate with his peculiar crouch. "He looks like a kid peeking around the corner to see if the cops are coming," explained one coach...
...headed and weighing 16 oz. It has been causing Sam some embarrassment, because the name of the manufacturer stamped on it is not that of the Wilson Sporting Goods Co., for which Sam works. But to Sam, that putter is the difference. He borrowed it from a Chicago pro, Stan Curtis, in Tucson last February, and it cured his tendency to tighten up on the greens...
...spent last week qualifying* would fight it out in the U.S. Open, the tournament Sam Snead called "the daddy of them all." Whatever happened (in two other years he had fallen apart on the greens after having the big prize within his grasp), Sam was certain of one thing: Stan Curtis would never get that putter back...
...nonplussed, I was bewildered . . . to see well-informed and ordinarily accurate TIME report in its May 2 issue that Stan Jones, writer of Ghost Riders,* is a "leathery-necked forest ranger" in Death Valley National Monument...