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'American Idol' Recap: Nicki Minaj Bashes Janelle Arthur, Hits on Smokey Robinson

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 17:29:00 +0000

Also, Mariah gets bleeped and assumes we don't know the meaning of "tour de force."

Firstly, the strange judge behavior continueth on Wednesday's American Idol: for some reason, I just noticed that Nicki Minaj and Mariah Carey don't ever seem to look at -- let alone acknowledge -- one another on the panel. When Mariah speaks, Nicki visibly turns away from Mimi to face Keith "Perfect Highlights" Urban. We don't need a body language expert to tell us that Nicki wants to smear "I HATE YOU" in pink lipstick on her rival's dressing-room walls. Also! Mariah mentioned on the air that producers "love" to cut off her commentary; perhaps the Hello Kitty enthusiast worked it so this time, she got dibs on doling out feedback while Nicki and Keith -- usually the first ones to speak up -- waited their turns, conceding the spotlight to Mariah.

Adding to the Nicki/Mariah tension: the divas both wore red dresses, and the color coordination could very well have been calculated to get Idol conspiracy theorists like myself a-Twittering about their allegedly bitter feud.

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While Mariah seemed to make an effort to play up her batty public image, brandishing a pink "magic wand" and saying things like "hashtag POW," Nicki -- brash and blunt as ever -- took on the Simon Cowell role. She was especially harsh toward her "little marshmallow" Janelle Arthur, who had the misfortune of sharing a duet (Motor City native Madonna's "Like a Prayer") with the wildly talented, super-cool Kree Harrison.

"Kreedom almost made it look like she flew in to do a duet with an Idol contestant today," sniped Nicki, while Janelle -- visibly devastated -- tried not to break down on stage, Charlie Askew-style.

But the butterscotch-voiced country singer managed to redeem herself in her stripped-down guitar solo performance of The Supremes' "You Keep Me Hangin' On." Declared Mariah: "Janelle at her finest!" Not missing a chance to undermine Nicki, she added: "Anything that anybody said earlier, she just proved them wrong." (Nicki maintained that Janelle's voice was still "off.")

With Mariah's seal of approval, Janelle began to weep, silent tears of relief streaming down her face ... or were those tears from the realization that Kree, her biggest competition, is most likely going to outlast her in the competition?

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As for the rest of the top eight, the night proved not to be a total bust -- well, maybe for one fan favorite. Behold:

Candice Glover (“I Heard It Through the Grapevine”): Arguably the most powerful and dynamic performer this season, Candice can apparently do no wrong – and each week, she improves upon the last. (I mean, if you’re so good you can make mentor/Motown legend Smokey Robinson cry, then maybe you’re too good for the competition.) She nailed it yet again on the Marvin Gaye classic, sporting her fiercest wronged-woman face and closing the performance with a bluesy growl. “Effortless,” quothRandy Jackson. “Crazy-good.”

Lazaro Arbos ("For Once in My Life"): After last week's trainwreck, I thought Lazaro was a goner -- but dude's got a devoted fan base. The pressure on, the anxiety-ridden hopeful listened to Nicki's advice not to listen to Jimmy Iovine's advice and chose a song he was comfortable with, infusing it with Latin/lounge-y flavor, and it was not the worst. Boring, yes -- but somewhere in America, the voting bloc of Lazaro mom-fans swooned and swayed in front of their TVs, lining up the family cell phones to text in multiple votes whilst replacing their David Cook shrines with pictures of the Lazaro. At least some credit for the contender's well-received turnaround should go to Smokey, who encouraged the shy ice cream scooper to follow his musical heart. "I don't know if you completely redeemed yourself but it was far better than last week," Randy told Lazaro. Echoing that sentiment, Nicki then shifted the focus on the elegant, ageless Mr. Robinson, who sat in the audience. She gushed: "I'm gonna ask Smokey if he'd like to be my sugardaddy. ... That's a sexy piece of specimen!"

(Keith cracked up; Mariah remained silent.)

Devin Velez ("The Tracks of My Tears"): This was good! But Adam Lambert's cover was much sparklier and more memorable. Devin, you are no Glambert, but like Nicki says, you do resemble a "ripe banana."

Burnell Taylor ("My Cherie Amour"): "Looking like a sexy doctor in all white!" said Nicki of the soulful, suited-up Louisiana crooner, before getting into serious critique mode: "Very, very good." Burnell radiates good energy and positive vibes, like a youngStevie Wonder, so this song was a perfect fit for his happy-go-lucky, old-school-with-a-twist performance style.

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Angie Miller ("Shop Around"): Meh! Not a good song choice for Angie, a frontrunner who's bound to be in the bottom three Thursday night. Pitchy and awkward, she appeared out of breath on the uptempto tune, when instead, as Mariah correctly observed, she "coulda sung 'I'll Be There' at the piano and knocked it out." Nicki told Angie, who wore a clingy blue dress, that she didn't have to try to be "overtly sexy" and should stay true to herself. Blah blah blah. Although I agree with what they said, the judges have been unfairly hard on Angie in recent weeks: she's too "sexy," too "emotional," too "theatrical," etc. Makes me wonder if they're piling on because they want her to stick around. If voters assume she's safe, they might not mobilize to keep her in the contest.

Amber Holcomb ("Lately"): The telegenic-yet-insecure finalist absolutely slayed her rendition of the Wonder love ballad -- so much so that Mariah dubbed it a "tour de force." Then, taking a cue from Nicki, she said something that got bleeped out and also insulted our intelligence by asking if we understand the term "tour de force." "Darlings, does anyone know what that means?" WE'RE NOT STUPID, MIMI.

Kree Harrison ("Don't Play That Song"): The Aretha Franklin songbook is typically Kryptonite for Idol contestants but Kree, fearless and confident, pulled off a winning take on the high-spirited "Don't Play That Song" without attempting to imitate the Queen of Soul. Well played, Kree, well played.

Interspersed throughout the show were duets a la the aforementioned and doomed Janelle-Kree pairing. Other groups consisted of Candice, Amber and Angie singing "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me" and Burnell, Devin and Lazaro on "Sugar Pie Honey Bunch." Lazaro forgot the words!

"I’m gonna act like I didn’t see that or hear it," said Nicki, recoiling as Keith giggled adorably at her disgust.

Questions, Idol Worshippers: who should go home tomorrow? Should the warm and spot-on Smokey become Jimmy's permanent co-mentor? Is Mariah finally making a bigger effort to upstage Nicki on the panel? Sound off in the comments!

wiki crafting

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:02:00 +0000

Mine craftwikicrafting

Crafting is the method by which many blocks, tools, and many other resources are made in Minecraft. In order to craft something, the player must move items from their inventory into a crafting grid. A simple 2×2 crafting grid grid can be accessed from the player's inventory. A 3×3 grid is accessible by right-clicking on a Crafting Table.

For some items, it

does not matter how they are arranged. These are commonly known as shapeless recipes. For example, a Fermented spider eye can have its ingredients placed anywhere within the grid.

crafting

However, many of the more important or useful game objects must have their components placed in the correct relative positions. Even then, provided the resources are arranged correctly, the item can be made in any way that fits in the grid. For example, a 3×1 recipe, such as bread, can be made in the top, middle or bottom row of the 3×3 grid, but it cannot be made in the 2×2 grid because it needs to be three items wide. 'Shaped' recipes can be 'slid' up or down, left or right, and they can even be flipped horizontally. For instance, you can make a bow with the strings on the right instead of the left.

The player always has access to the 2×2 crafting grid from their Inventory screen, and this can be used whenever the screen is brought up. Crafting recipes which are at most 2×2 wide and tall can always be made there. This includes wooden planks, sticks and, importantly, the crafting table itself. To craft with a 3×3 grid, create a crafting table, place it in any convenient spot and then right-click on it. This brings up a pop-up screen with a 3×3 grid on which the player can assemble any crafting recipe in the game.

resource : http://www.minecraftwiki.net/wiki/Crafting

FINANCIAL_SUCCESS FINANCIAL SUCCESS GUIDE

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 16 Feb 2013 18:36:00 +0000

FINANCIAL_SUCCESS
FINANCIAL SUCCESS GUIDE

Many people are looking for SUCCESSFUL FINANCIAL but it stuck in financial problems, debt-ridden, financial lack, deceived, and more.
In this ebook you will learn simple and easy TIPS that will direct you towards the path of success as has been achieved by thousands of people. You currently have paved the way towards the same direction.
You do not need to change anything you have learned. You only need an hour to learn the tips and a few hours to practice. The results you achieve will make you.

Tips 1

SELECT YOUR PRIORITIES
I'm sure you know that in order to build a home always begins with making the plans, ranging from the foundation, up roofing and interior finishing. Try to imagine if you build a house without the plans at all! What a mess is not it?

So also to build a life, you must have a written plan! And it begins by writing down your plan priorities.
Now take the book and your pen!.

What are your top priorities for Achieving FINANCIAL SUCCESS:
- Additional Income
- Adequacy of Financial
- Having your own business
- Having a lot of free time
- Personal development
- Helping others
- Retirement calmly
- Leave a legacy
- ..................................... (Your content according to your priorities)
If you listen, one of the priorities on the list above are the reasons to download and read this ebook. There may be others, but this is the main motivation for you!! Correct??

Write down your main motivation in the book you've prepared.

YES ... write now so you always remember

Tips 2

WHY YOU CONSIDER

THIS IS YOUR PRIORITY?

OK. In the first tips you've written your priorities. If not, write now! We do not need to rush.

Now write down your priorities you have written, the reason why you think it is your priority?

YES ... write now!!

You will find specific FINANCIAL SUCCESS for you according to what I promised.

How, it was written?

If so, we continue to tips 3.

Tips 3

WHY YOU CONSIDER

IS IT IMPORTANT TO YOU?

Until this section I'm sure you've written your priorities and why you chose it. If they are not, reread tips 1 and 2, then write!

In these three tips, write down the reasons you chose your priorities, the reason why it's important to you?

YES ... write now!! We disagree that successful people never delay-delay. True or not?

Until these 3 tips and if you've written it, you have at least 3 sentences. Correct?

Now we proceed on tips 4.

Tip 5

WHY IT MAKES

YOU WORRY?

Until these five tips I'm sure you've written your priorities, the reason you choose it, the importance of your priorities, and the risks you face! If they are not, reread the tips 1,2,3, and 4 and then write!!

In these five tips, write down the possible risks you face if your priority is not achieved, why it makes you worry?

Yes ... Write now!! Do not delay anymore.

Until these five tips and if you've written it, you have at least 5 sentences.

Tip 4

WHAT RISKS YOUR FACE

IF YOUR PRIORITY

NOT REACHED?

Until the four tips I'm sure you've written your priorities, the reason you chose it and the importance of priorities.

If they are not, reread the tips 1,2, and 3 and then write!!

In these four tips, write down the reasons the significance of your priorities, what risks you face if it turns out your priorities are not achieved?

Mmm ... YES ... of course write this very moment!

to be continue.....

thanks for reading

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2013

Money for Startups: Kauffman’s State of Entrepreneurship Address

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 14 Feb 2013 18:06:00 +0000

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Beyond the obvious sources, where are startups finding financing and other types of support today? What’s been done to make it easier for entrepreneurs to tap traditional funding sources since the financial crisis? And how are Washington and the private sector helping?

These are the kinds of questions Small Business Administration chief Karen Mills, Senator Jerry Moran (R-Kan.),
and a handful of others will be trying to answer on Tuesday afternoon at the Kauffman Foundation’s fourth annual State of Entrepreneurship Address in Washington. They’re likely to emphasize a small fraction of America’s 28 million small businesses—high-growth young ventures that account for a disproportionate share of job creation—as crucial to strengthening the U.S. economy.
Expect to hear a bunch of policy prescriptions that call for relaxed regulationsf—from urging the Securities and Exchange Commission to avoid making its forthcoming crowdfunding rules overly burdensome for entrepreneurs to allowing company shareholders to vote on whether they think Sarbanes-Oxley accounting rules are necessary.
Bloomberg TV is streaming the event live from 12 p.m. until 2 p.m. East Coast time; you can watch it here. If you miss the live webcast, you’ll also be able to watch it

resource : http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-05/money-for-startups-kauffman-s-state-of-entrepreneurship-address#r=blg-s

Just over two-thirds (71%) of businesses are planning to increase their spend on digital marketing technology this year, down marginally from 74% in 2012.

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 19:03:00 +0000

In comparison, just 3% of companies plan to decrease the amount spent on digital technology.
The findings come from the new Econsultancy/Responsys Marketing Budgets 2013 Report, which looks in detail at how companies are allocating their online and offline marketing budgets in 2013.
More than 800 companies, mainly from the UK, participated in this research, which took the form of an online survey between December 2012 and January 2013.
One of the most frequently quoted predictions from 2012 was Gartner’s belief that, by 2017, CMOs will spend more on technology than CIOs, and these findings appear to back that up.
What best describes your plans for digital marketing technology spending in 2013?

Looking at how the increase in spending will take shape, the most common area for investment will be business and web analytics (46%), CRM (45%) and content management systems (41%).
The prominence of analytics and CRM systems suggests that collating and managing data is still one of the key challenges for businesses.
Other popular areas for investment include social media management systems (38%), email platforms (38%) and paid search/bid management (35%).
In the year-on-year comparison, there has been a significant decline in the proportion of organisations who plan to increase investment in online reputation monitoring, from 27% in 2012 to 20% this year.
On which types of digital marketing technology will you be increasing investment in 2013?

In line with the increased investment in digital technologies, businesses are also planning to recruit more digital marketers in 2013.
Exactly half (50%) of client-side respondents said they plan to add more people to their digital marketing teams this year, down from 56% in 2012.
Interestingly, agencies paint a very different picture, with 73% of respondents stating that their clients are planning to recruit more people into their digital teams, up from 67% last year

resource : http://econsultancy.com/id/blog/62095-71-of-businesses-plan-to-spend-more-on-digital-marketing-technology-in-2013

Nutrition Nook offers healthy food & recipe tips for students on a budget at Universal Technical Institute

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 18:09:00 +0000

Misty Ross

Nutrition Nook offers healthy food & recipe tips for students on a budget at Universal Technical Institute

Misty Ross is no stranger to the financial struggles of students. Early on in her career, she was going to school while raising three children as a single mother.
So now, as director of Employment and Student Services for Universal Technical Institute’s Dallas campus,she realized students sometimes have little money for food. So she started the Nutrition Nook at the school, which teaches mechanics for cars, motorcycles, diesel engines and boats.

At the Nutrition Nook, students pay nothing for an Energy Pack, which consists of $20 worth of food that will feed them three meals a day for seven days. All they need to supply are bread and milk. A pamphlet explains how to use the food to cook dinner one night and have leftovers for lunch; other information offers nutrition and budgeting tips.
True, studying and going to classes take up time that could otherwise be spent working and earning money. But it’s also an investment in the future, which UTI obviously understands.
So kudos to them and to Misty Ross for several reasons: Realizing the sacrifice students make to learn; offering them ingredients and knowledge rather an mere (but very welcome) handout; and showing students the school is there to support them in ways that extend beyond academics.

resouce : http://healthblog.dallasnews.com/2013/02/nutrition-nook-offers-healthy-food-recipe-tips-for-students-on-a-budget-at-universal-technical-institute.html/

HP Investors Face a Lonelier Road Ahead

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 11 Feb 2013 17:43:00 +0000

Now that its nemesis, Dell (DELL), is going private and bowing out of the quarterly earnings spotlight, Hewlett-Packard (HPQ) finds itself at the intersection of two clichés: Misery loves company (but) breaking up is hard to do.

Of course, there’s no public sign of weakness. Within minutes of Dell’s deal announcement, HP released a statement that said Dell faces “a very tough road ahead” as a privately held enterprise. “Leveraged buyouts,” the company argued, “tend to leave existing customers and innovation at the curb. Dell’s customers will now be eager to explore alternatives, and HP plans to take full advantage of that opportunity.”

The comments might have been revenge for Michael Dell’s having tweeted in the summer of 2011: “If H-P spins off their PC business, maybe they will call it Compaq?” when HP briefly considered jettisoning boxes and laptops. Both companies probably wish they’d done so long ago.
Dell’s demise is cold comfort for Hewlett-Packard, which—coming off its own era of really bad decisions—now faces a paucity of financial options. The tech company is a fraction of its former size, with its share price having tanked 65 percent since former Chief Executive Officer Mark Hurd was pushed out in August 2010.
“In our view, the board evaluating a possible break-up is standard fiduciary duty with the stock down nearly 50 percent in the last year,” wrote analyst Brian Marshall of ISI Group in a Feb. 5 note that conceded, “any break-up is at least 1-2 years away.”
“They are now atoning for their sins,” says Dave Novosel of research firm Gimme Credit. He notes that while HP has more than $11 billion in cash, that stash is overshadowed by its $28 billion debt load. What’s more, he says, the firm is still paying the tab for $18 billion in poorly timed share buybacks since 2010. (Compare those sums to HP’s present $32 billion market value). “There’s so much debt, they’re strategically confused, and the cash flow needs to grow,” Novosel says. “I’d find it hard to believe they could go private.”
Alas, Wall Street, which has never been much accused of seeing half-empty glasses, pegs an average target for HP that is 20 percent below its current $16 share price.
HP could, at least in theory, be a prime value-unlocking target for a band of hardy investor-agitators; David Einhorn, after all, is taking on Apple (AAPL), a rival multiples HP’s size that totes nearly $140 billion in cash. But HP has only so many stock-boosting levers to pull, given a balance sheet deep in deleveraging mode, a declawed activist already on its board, and the widely held belief that the sprawling multinational’s wares sell better to companies when packaged together.
Just ask Carly Fiorina, the former HP CEO who assembled so much of what current management is trying to streamline. In a Feb. 6 interview with CNBC, Fiorina used the word “synergy,” sans irony, thrice in one minute.

resource : http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2013-02-08/hp-investors-face-a-lonelier-road-ahead#r=mar-s

Kate Upton: 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue 2013 Cover!

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sat, 09 Feb 2013 19:17:00 +0000

Kate Upton: 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue 2013 Cover!

Kate Upton shows off her buxom body while going nearly topless on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue 2013, on newsstands February 12.

The 20-year-old model was photographed in the freezing cold weather aboard a cruise sailing around Antarctica for the issue, which represents models posing on all seven continents of the globe.

Kate and nine of the other models from the issue will be making an appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman on Monday (February 11). Make sure to tune in!
For more from the issue, make sure to visit SI.com!
WHAT DO YOU THINK of Kate Upton’s cover for Sports Illustrated‘s Swimsuit Issue?

resouce :http://www.justjared.com/2013/02/08/kate-upton-sports-illustrated-swimsuit-issue-2013-cover/?ref=topposts

Bob Marley Birthday: Reggae Singer Would Have Turned 68 Today

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Thu, 07 Feb 2013 16:07:00 +0000

Kate Upton: 'Sports Illustrated' Swimsuit Issue 2013 Cover!

Kate Upton shows off her buxom body while going nearly topless on the cover of Sports Illustrated’s Swimsuit Issue 2013, on newsstands February 12.

The 20-year-old model was photographed in the freezing cold weather aboard a cruise sailing around Antarctica for the issue, which represents models posing on all seven continents of the globe.

The Martin Luther King dreams that Obama forgot

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Mon, 21 Jan 2013 14:13:00 +0000

Fredrick Harris is a professor of political science and the director of the Institute for Research in African-American Studies at Columbia University. He is the author of “The Price of the Ticket: Barack Obama and the Rise and Decline of Black Politics.”

When I was growing up in the 1970s in Atlanta — the birthplace of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and the city where he is interred — we commemorated the civil rights leader quite differently from how we do today.
The remembrances took place on April 4, the anniversary of his assassination, not on his January birthday; after all, the King national holiday did not yet exist. And rather than focus on the March on Washington and King’s “I have a dream” speech, the city would emphasize his mission and message toward the end of his life. It was less a ritual of collective mourning than a reminder of the fight King was waging: a war against the triple evils of racism, poverty and militarism, reflected in a battle for the rights of low-wage garbage workers in Memphis, a movement against the Vietnam War and, nationally, the hope for a second march on Washington, one that would dramatize the plight of America’s poor.

On Monday, President Obama’s second inauguration and the Martin Luther King Jr. holiday will converge, making for great history and symbolism. The president is embracing that symbolism — swearing in on the Bibles of King and President Abraham Lincoln, and having Myrlie Evers-Williams, the widow of slain civil rights leader Medgar Evers, deliver the invocation. Of course, the greatest symbol is Obama; for many Americans, his rise reflects how we’ve overcome the racism King fought. As Interior Secretary Ken Salazar put it during the dedication of the King memorial on the Mall in October 2011, Obama is “the personification of [King’s] American dream.”
Yet, it is no small irony that the anti-inequality movement that cleared the path for Obama’s presidency would find its supposed personification in a chief executive who has spoken less about poverty and race than any Democratic president in a generation. And that the Baptist preacher from Georgia who stood for nonviolence would never have condoned the militaristic actions of a president whose escalated use of drone warfare kills innocents around the world.
Unfortunately, these aspects of King’s legacy have been eclipsed by a national holiday that commemorates the civil rights leader by asking Americans to participate in an important, but generic, day of public service. In one of his most moving yet rarely remembered sermons, “Remaining Awake Through a Great Revolution,” delivered at the National Cathedralthe Sunday before his death, King left the nation with a vision of what it would take for real change to come to America, and it was more than public service.
“We are coming to demand that the government addresses itself to the problem of poverty,” King told the congregation. “It is our experience that the nation doesn’t move around questions of genuine equality for the poor and for black people until it is confronted massively, dramatically in terms of direct action.”
As inequality widens and more Americans fall into poverty, King’s call for direct action is no less true for Obama in 2013 than it was for President Lyndon Johnson in 1968. Fresh from reelection to a second term, Obama has an opportunity to not only ceremoniously acknowledge the struggles of the past but to also directly address, through words and deeds, the unfinished agenda of erasing the vestiges of racial inequality.

resource :http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-martin-luther-king-dreams-that-obama-forgot

STAN 'THE MAN' MUSIAL DIES: NO. 6 WAS GREATEST CARDINAL

noreply@blogger.com (Unknown) — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 18:17:00 +0000

The Ebbets Field faithful in Brooklyn were the first to call Stan Musial “The Man” after Musial had ravaged their beloved Dodgers time and again in the late 1940s. On one occasion, Post-Dispatch baseball writer Bob Broeg incorporated “The Man” into his game account. And that was how Musial forever after was referred to in St. Louis: “Stan the Man.”
Hall of Famer Musial died quietly at age 92 at his St. Louis County home Saturday (Jan. 19, 2013) evening at 5:45 p.m., surrounded by family and friends and under hospice care.
Musial had been in declining health for the last several years, notably the last several months, including being afflicted with Alzheimer’s disease. Lillian Musial, his wife of more than 70 years, had died last May 4.
Musial is considered the greatest player in Cardinal history and probably the most popular, too. A former pitcher who turned to outfield and first base after hurting his arm, Musial played his entire 22-season career with the Cardinals, from 1941-63.
He is the franchise’s leader in virtually every offensive category and Musial held the National League record for hits at 3,630 before Pete Rose broke it in 1981.

A .331 lifetime batter, Musial hit .300 or better 16 straight seasons, beginning in 1942. He played on three world championship teams, in 1942, 1944 and 1946, and played in 24 All-Star Games, tying a record. He won three National League Most Valuable Player awards.
Perhaps the crowning achievement of his playing career happened on May 13, 1958, when he pinch-hit a double in Chicago for the 3,000th hit of his career. Musial then was honored in impromptu fashion at several whistle stops along the way as the Cardinals’ train made its way home from Chicago after the game.
NO. 6 GETS RETIRED
Musial was the first Cardinals player to have his number, No. 6, retired. And his top baseball honor came in 1969, when he was a first-ballot selection to Baseball’s Hall of Fame in Cooperstown, N.Y.
In 1999, Musial was named a member of the All-Century Team for the 20th century. And then, in 2011, much longer after his career was over, Musial, at age 90, was honored in Washington, D.C, with the Presidential Medal of Freedom presented by Presidant Barack Obama. The Medal of Freedom is the highest civilian honor.
After his playing days, Musial was a senior vice president for the organization and, in his lone season as the club’s general manager, the Cardinals swept to the World Series title in 1967 when they beat the Boston Red Sox in seven games.
But, as much anything else, Musial was the perfect ambassador for the game. From his ever-present smile, to his phantom swing of a bat, to the harmonica he would play at a moment’s notice, Musial was loved and beloved by all.
A large bronze statute erected outside Busch Stadium II and then moved to the newest Busch Stadium carries the words uttered by then commissioner Ford C. Frick the day Musial retired, on Sept. 29, 1963. Frick said: “Here stands baseball’s perfect warrior. Here stands baseball’s perfect knight.”
Fellow Hall of Famer Red Schoendienst was a teammate of Musial with the Cardinals in the 1940s, 1950s and 1960s. The two roomed together for more than 10 years.
“A lot of times we would go visit kids in hospitals whenever we were on the road,” Schoendienst once said. “He didn’t want publicity for it, and he didn’t do it to seek recognition or humanitarian awards. He just did it because he thought it was the right thing to do. He enjoyed making other people happy and maybe give them a small ray of sunshine to brighten up their lives.”
Musial and Schoendienst did nearly everything together as roommates, whether it was dinner or a stage show or hobnobbing with such famous entertainers as Al Hirt, Harry James or Jack Benny.
Their interests were similar. Both were from small towns and, besides, Musial said, Schoendienst did have one other redeeming quality. “The good thing about him was that he didn’t snore,” Musial said.
THE BOY FROM DONORA
Born in Donora, Pa., on Nov. 21, 1920, Musial signed with the Cardinals for $65 a month in 1938 but only after a struggle with his Polish immigrant father, Lukasz, who wanted Stan to go to the University of Pittsburgh on a basketball scholarship.
Musial’s mother, Mary, asked her husband, “Lukasz, why did you come to America?”
“Because it’s a free country, that’s why.”
“That’s right. And in America, a boy is free not to go to college, too.”
In Musial’s first two seasons in the farm system, he most often was a pitcher. In 1940 at Daytona Beach, the lefthanded-throwing Musial was 18-5 and batted .311 as a part-time outfielder. But, late in the season, he fell heavily on his left shoulder as he tried to make a diving catch.
Reporting to the Columbus Class AAA team the next spring, Musial barely could throw. He allowed long home runs to veteran Cardinals Terry Moore and Johnny Mize in one game and seven runs in another. Musial sort of fell off everyone’s radar in the Cardinals’ organization except for that of Ollie Vanek, the manager of the Class C Springfield, Mo., team, well down in the system. Vanek saw an outfielder in that sore-armed pitcher. He put him in right field in Springfield because the fence was short. Soon Musial would begin his meteoric rise.
EARNING A PROMOTION
The lefthanded-batting Musial hit .379 with 26 home runs in 87 games at Springfield and was jumped to Class AAA Rochester, where he batted .326. Then, with the Cardinals involved in a torrid pennant race with Brooklyn late in 1941, Musial was promoted to the big leagues. He hit .426 in 47 at-bats that September, impressing friend and foe alike.
In his first at-bat, against Boston Braves’ knuckleballer Jim Tobin, Musial popped up. The next time he saw Tobin, he doubled off the right-field wall.
Against the Chicago Cubs in a doubleheader later that September, Musial made two diving catches in left field, threw out a runner at the plate and had four hits in the first game. In the second game, he had two hits, made a diving catch and then a double-somersault grab of another liner.
Chicago manager Jimmy Wilson, beside himself, said: “Nobody can be that good. Nobody.”
But he was that good. “That kid was born to play baseball,” said Cardinals manager Billy Southworth.
The Cardinals would finish 2 1/2 games behind the Dodgers in the National League race that year but would win four of the next five pennants. The first came in 1942, when the Cardinals won 106 games, with Musial hitting .315, and then the Cardinals wiped out the powerful New York Yankees in five games to win the World Series.
According to Broeg, who later became Post-Dispatch sports editor and gained entry into the writers’ wing at the Hall of Fame, Musial cried in New York’s Penn Station as the club prepared to return home. His modest $4,250 rookie’s salary had been more than doubled by what would be a $6,000 World Series check.
MORE THAN THE MONEY
But Musial wasn’t about money. After the 1946 season, promoters from a new Mexican League tried to entice big-name players to jump ship. Musial was making $13,500 with the Cardinals and was being offered $125,000 for five years. He turned down the Mexican League.
“Back in my day, we didn’t think about money as much,” said Musial. “We enjoyed playing the game. We loved baseball. I didn’t think about anybody else but the Cardinals.”
From 1943-54, Musial batted less than .330 just once, and that was in 1947, when, afflicted by appendicitis, he slipped to “only” .312.
Players and fans marveled and wondered how Musial could hit so well with such an unorthodox style. His stance was tightly closed, and he appeared to be looking at the pitcher from around a corner. Then, he would uncoil quickly from this corkscrew position to send line drives to all fields.
Longtime Brooklyn lefthander Preacher Roe said he had the best way to defense Musial: “Throw him four wide ones (walk him) and then pick him off first base.”
Musial, who had exactly 1,815 hits at home and 1,815 on the road, had many of those away-from-home hits in cozy Ebbets Field.
“It seemed like I always did some great hitting in Brooklyn,” he said. “The field there was close to the stands. Every time I started walking to the plate, I could hear the fans say, ‘Here comes that man again. Here comes that man.’’’
Musial’s best season was in 1948, when he hit a career-high .376 to win the batting title, smacked 39 home runs, drove in 131 runs and scored 135.
Before the 1958 season, Musial became the first $100,000 baseball player in the league. That came on the heels of his winning the final of his seven batting titles in 1957 at .351 and the last time he drove in more than 100 runs at 102. He won the batting crown that year despite having suffered a hairline shoulder fracture in August, forcing him to punch at the ball in the last month of the season.
THE LATTER YEARS
One of the few disappointments Musial had as a player was that the Cardinals didn’t win a pennant in his playing days after 1946, the year they capped their run of four pennants in five years. Their only miss in that time was in 1945, when Musial was in the Navy.
Musial hit .337 in 1958 but then dipped to .255, .275 and .288 the next three years, and it seemed as if the end of his playing career was near. But, at age 41, Musial rallied for a .330 season in 1962 before closing out his 22 seasons by batting .255 in 1963.
On the last day of that 1963 season, Musial sent a single to the right and another to the left of the Cincinnati Reds’ second baseman. Ironically, that second baseman was Rose, who would break Musial’s National League hit record some 18 years later.
After the second hit, manager Johnny Keane sent Gary Kolb out to run for Musial, drawing a brief chorus of boos. But then, as “The Man” left the field for the last time, fans returned to cheering, giving him a long, thunderous standing ovation.
After his retirement as a player, Musial’s many interests included investments in restaurants and hotels and serving as President Lyndon B. Johnson’s director of the National Council on Physical Fitness.
Musial’s successful restaurant, Stan Musial and Biggie’s, on Oakland Avenue, was a longtime gathering spot for athletes and fans alike.
Stan also had the midas touch as an executive. He was general manager for just one year, but his basically hands-off approach worked as the Cardinals won the World Series with Schoendienst as manager in 1967. Later, Musial was a senior vice president with the team, although that was mostly a ceremonial title.
Former Cardinals manager Tony La Russa used to get excited the few times he got to see Musial every year. “It’s a combination of as great a player you have and then, once you get to know him, he’s just as great off the field,” said La Russa. “That combination not only is to be admired and respected, it is to be loved.”
THAT 3,000TH HIT
Musial’s 3,000th career hit in 1958 came on the last day of a trip as manager Fred Hutchinson refused to wait until the next night for Musial to get his 3,000th hit at home. The Cardinals were losing 3-1 at the time, but scored four runs to go ahead.
Instead, of adoring St. Louis fans saluting Musial after hit No. 3,000, fans throughout central and southern Illinois had a chance to honor him as the Cardinals’ train ride home became akin to a political train whistle-stopping through the countryside. Fans in Springfield, Ill., and elsewhere got a chance to see Musial as he came to the platform and at one stop, he said, “I see a lot of children here. Take the day off tomorrow (Friday) and don’t go to school.’’’
If Hutchinson had been more patient, Musial would have collected No. 3,000 almost immediately at home. “The next night, the first time up, I hit a home run off Johnny Antonelli (of the San Francisco Giants),” recalled Musial a few years ago.
Musial’s memory was dead-on. He homered off the Giants’ tough lefthander with two out in the first inning for hit No. 3,001.
Often Musial was asked what he would hit if he played in these times. After some consideration, he said, “I guess I’d hit above my average, which was .331. I’d be making a lot of money.”
Musial became a Cardinal in 1941 and always was a Cardinal. In many ways, he was the Cardinals.

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