One was inevitable. The other, as the decades go by, seems more or less impossible.
When it comes to the myriad baseball feats and accomplishments of simple humanity achieved by the legendary Stan Musial, it turns out that Jan. 21 is a very special date for moments that make up "The Man."
We're picking two on this Throwback Thursday to honor one of the game's undisputed greats: Musial being elected to the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969, and Musial electing to take a pay cut for the 1960 season after a subpar (to his standards, at least) 1959 campaign.