After seeing his average dip to .255 in the 1959 baseball season, Stan Musial agreed to take a 20 percent pay cut from the Cardinals. This is how the Post-Dispatch reported the story on Jan. 21, 1960.
Stan Musial today took his first cut in the pocketbook as he signed for 1960, a season in which he is likely to take his last cut at the plate for the Cardinals.
Although The Man declined to disclose the amount of the pay slash, he acknowledged that it was less than the maximum 25 per cent permitted.