Stan Musial Red Schoendienst Marty Marion Signed Baseball St. Louis Cardinals

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Stan Musial Red Schoendienst Marty Marion Signed Baseball St. Louis Cardinals. This "official" MLB baseball was signed by three St. Louis Cardinals' legends. You can't find this signed baseball with Stan Musial at 1st, Red Scheoendienst at 2nd and Marty "Mr. Shortstop" Marion at Shortstop. The signatures were obtained in person through the St. Louis Cardinals front office. They are guaranteed to pass PSA, JSA or any other 3rd party authentication service. The Musial and Shoendienst signatures have faded a little over time but the Marion is still very crisp. Get this one right now; you may never see it again. The baseball will be shipped via USPS Priority Mail.
Marty Marion...In a 13-season career, Marion posted a .263 batting average with 36 home runs and 624 RBI in 1572 games. His career fielding percentage was .969. He made All-Star Game appearances from 1943–44 and 1946–1950 (There was no All-Star Game in 1945). In 1944, he earned the National League Most Valuable Player Award.The Cardinals invited Schoendienst for spring training in Cairo, Illinois, in 1945. Schoendiest had been a shortstop in the minor leagues. but as the Cardinals had Marty Marion, who had won the National League's (NL) MVP Award in 1944, as their shortstop, St. Louis assigned Schoendienst to be their left fielder.[5] Totaling 137 games in his rookie season, he batted .278 with a league-high 26 SB. In 1946, the Cardinals moved Schoendienst to play second base on their way to their third World Series title in five years. During the 1946 offseason, he won the televised home run derby. With sure hands and quick reflexes, he led the National League's second basemen for seven seasons and handled 320 consecutive chances without an error in 1950. In that season's All-Star Game, he won the contest for the National League with a home run in the top of 14th inning. It was the first All-Star game to go to extra innings.[5] His 1956 league record fielding percentage of .9934 stood for 30 years until broken by Ryne Sandberg.[9]In a trade that was extremely unpopular with Cardinals fans and his best friend Stan Musial, Schoendienst, along with Jackie Brandt, Bill Sarni, Dick Littlefield and Bobby Stephenson, was sent to the New York Giants for Alvin Dark, Whitey Lockman, Ray Katt and Don Liddle on June 14, 1956. The transaction was made possible after the Cardinals switched Don Blasingame from shortstop to second base to replace Schoendienst.[10][11]The following season, the Giants traded Schoendienst to the Milwaukee Braves for Bobby Thomson, Ray Crone, and Danny O'Connell. Schoendienst helped lead the team to its first pennant in nine years,[12] batting .309 and finishing third in the NL MVP vote. In the World Series the Braves defeated the New York Yankees to win their only title in Milwaukee, and the franchise's first since 1914. Milwaukee repeated as NL champions in 1958 but lost to the Yankees in their World Series rematch; Schoendienst flied out to Mickey Mantle for the Series' final out.[13]During the 1958–59 off-season Schoendienst was diagnosed with tuberculosis and underwent a partial pneumonectomy in February 1959. Despite being told that he would never play again, he returned to the Braves in 1960—only to be released at the end of the season. In 1961 he rejoined the Cardinals, first as a pinch hitter, then as a coach when Johnny Keane replaced Solly Hemus as the Cardinals' manager. In his final two playing seasons he served as a player-coach, batting over .300 in both 1962 and 1963.[5]
Red Schoendienst...In 19 seasons as a player, Schoendienst compiled a .289 batting average with 84 home runs, 773 RBI, 1,223 runs, 2,449 hits, 427 doubles, 78 triples and 89 stolen bases in 2,216 games played. His defensive statistics as a second baseman included 4,616 putouts, 5,243 assists, 1,368 double plays, and 170 errors in 10,029 total chances for a .983 fielding average.[14]
Stan Musial...Musial made his major league debut during the second game of a doubleheader at Sportsman's Park on September 17, 1941.[38] The Cardinals were in the midst of a pennant race with the Brooklyn Dodgers; in 12 games, Musial collected 20 hits for a .426 batting average.[39] Despite Musial's late contributions, the Cardinals finished two and one-half games behind the 100-game-winning Dodgers.[40]Cardinals manager Billy Southworth used Musial as a left fielder to begin 1942, sometimes lifting him for a pinch-hitter against left-handed pitching.[41] Musial was hitting .315 by late June,[42] as the Cardinals resumed battling the Dodgers for first place in the National League (NL).[43] The Cardinals took sole possession of first place on September 13, and when Musial caught a fly ball to end the first game of a doubleheader on September 27 they clinched the pennant with their 105th win.[44] He finished the season with a .315 batting average and 72 runs batted in (RBI) in 140 games. Musial received national publicity when he was named by St. Louis Post-Dispatch sports editor J. Roy Stockton as his choice for Rookie of the Year in a Saturday Evening Post article.[45][46]The Cardinals played the American League champion New York Yankees in the 1942 World Series.[47] Representing the winning run at home plate in the bottom of the ninth inning of Game 1 at Sportsman's Park, Musial grounded out with the bases loaded to end the game .[48] Musial's first hit of the Series was an RBI single that provided the margin of victory in Game 2, allowing the Cardinals to tie the Series.[49] Over the next three games at Yankee Stadium, Musial had three more hits as the Cardinals defeated the Yankees in the Series four games to one.[50] Musial batted .222 for the Series, with two runs scored.[51]Musial's 1943 season started with a brief contract holdout in spring training.[52] He made the National League All-Star team for the first time as a starting left fielder and got a double in the All-Star Game on July 13.[52] He finished the season leading the major leagues in hitting with a .357 batting average and led the NL in hits (220), doubles (48), triples (20), total bases (347), on-base percentage (.425), and slugging percentage (.562).[53] This performance earned him his first NL Most Valuable Player Award, ahead of teammate and catcher Walker Cooper (.318 batting average).[53] After romping to another NL pennant by 18 games, the Cardinals again faced the Yankees in the 1943 World Series.[54] Musial had a single in the Cardinals' Game 1 loss, and scored a run in a Game 2 win.[54] The Cardinals did not win another game in the Series, but the loser's bonus share paid to each Cardinals player (,321.99, equivalent to ,900 in 2019) still amounted to nearly two-thirds of Musial's regular season salary.[55]United States involvement in World War II began to impinge on Musial's baseball career in 1944, as he underwent a physical examination in prelude to possible service in the armed forces.[56] He ultimately remained with the Cardinals for the entire season, posting a .347 batting average with 197 hits.[57][58] The Cardinals claimed the NL pennant for the third consecutive season, and faced St. Louis's other major league team, the Browns, in the 1944 World Series.[59] The Browns took a 2–1 lead, while Musial hit .250 with no RBI.[60] He broke out in Game 4 with a two-run home run, single, double, and a walk as part of a 5–1 Cardinals win.[60] The Cardinals went on to defeat the Browns in six games, and Musial posted a .304 batting average for the Series.[61][62]