Editor’s note: The following is a story about Stan Musial hitting five home runs in a double-header against the New York Giants on May 2, 1954, written by the late Bob Broeg, former Post-Dispatch Cardinals writer/columnist/sports editor.
About 1 o’clock yesterday afternoon a New York newspaperman, gathering material for a magazine story, asked manager Eddie Stanky a question on the steps of the Cardinals’ dugout at Busch Stadium.
It was phrased carefully by Archibald Gordon (Tiger) Murray, the eminent Princeton alumnus and sporting writer. “Who,” he inquired, “is the best player in baseball? Stan Musial?