"I WAS A POOR BOY WHO STRUCK IT RICH THROUGH THE WONDERS OF BASEBALL": SIGNED BY STAN MUSIAL

MUSIAL, Stan [with] BROEG, Bob. Stan Musial: "The Man's" Own Story. Garden City: Doubleday, 1964. Octavo, original tan cloth, original dust jacket. $450.

First edition of this autobiography of “a great player with a bewitched bat,” with 16 pages of photographs, boldly signed by Musial on the front flyleaf.

Hall-of-Famer "Stan the Man" was a left-hander with a corkscrew stance that helped him break 29 National League records and win three MVP Awards. His co-author for this autobiography was St. Louis Post-Dispatch sportswriter Bob Broeg, who coined Musial's nickname in a 1946 column. Illustrated with 16 pages of black-and-white photographs. Smith 17076. Grobani 8-121.

Book in near-fine condition, with faint offsetting to endpapers and small spots of staining to text block fore-edge; price-clipped dust jacket extremely good with minor rubbing to spine extremities and two short closed tears to back panel, one with old tape repair.