Musial played 22 years in the Major League , all with the St. Louis Cardinals . He retired in 1963 as , statistically , one of the best hitters in baseball history . He died Saturday evening of natural causes , his grandson says . He was simply `` The Man . '' The first thing you notice about him is that he was a big man -- 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds at age 30 -- but also had an athletic build for someone who weighed so much.
Musial played 22 years in the Major League , all with the St. Louis Cardinals . He retired in 1963 as , statistically , one of the best hitters in baseball history . He died Saturday evening of natural causes , his grandson says . The first thing you notice about him is that he was a big man -- 6-foot-5 and 250 pounds at age 30 -- but also had an athletic build for someone who weighed so much.