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Baseball Hall Of Famers Musial, Weaver Dead

By Dean Pantazi

Baseball Hall Of Famers Musial, Weaver Dead

January 20, 2013 Updated Jan 20, 2013 at 2:12 AM EDT

UNDATED (www.incnow.tv) - Death claimed Baseball Hall of Famers Stan Musial and Earl Weaver this weekend.

Musial passed away at the age of 92 in St. Louis.

His standout major league career, all with the St. Louis Cardinals, included seven National League batting titles, three National League Most Valuable Player awards. three World Series titles in the 1940s, and 24 All Star Game selections.

All this from a guy who had a lifetime batting average of .331, 3,630 career hits, and 475 career home runs.

Weaver died suddenly at 82 while on a cruise sponsored by the Baltimore Orioles, the team he managed for 17 years and into four World Series with one world championship



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