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Lillian Musial, wife of Stan the Man, dies
Date: 5/3/2012 Album ID: 1463812
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by Patrick M. O'Connell --- Lillian "Lil" Musial, the wife of St. Louis Cardinals legend and baseball great Stan Musial for nearly 72 years, died Thursday at home surrounded by family members. She was 91.
Mrs. Stan Musial, spring of 1957. Photo by Jules Pierlow
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Lillian, Dickie & Stan Musial in Donora, PA. Donora Herald-American/Donora Historical Society
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Stan Musial, St. Louis Cards outfielder and National League batting champion, gets a taste of the dinner to come from his pretty wife, Lillian, at their home in Donora, Penn., Oct. 19, 1943 where Stan has settled down during the off season to ordinary home life and a job as a freight car checker at the zinc works of the American Steel and Wire Co. (AP Photo)
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Stan and Lil Musial and their children at their Donora, PA home in December of 1946.
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Sept. 29, 1946---The Cardinals star (Stan Musial) with his wife Lillian and their children, Dickie and Geraldine. Photo by Louis Phillips, Post-Dispatch staff photographer
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Stan & Lil Musial board a plane bound for the Cardinals spring training camp in St. Petersburg, FL, in February of 1955.
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Mary Musial, her son Stan, and Lillian Musial.
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The Musial family at the beach during spring training in 1952. From left, Lillian, Jerry, 7, Janet, 2, and Dickie, 11.
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Oct. 5, 1946----Stan Musial, star first baseman of the National League champion Cardinals, is the center of attraction for autograph hunters as he is met by his wife and daughter Geraldine at Union Station, on his arrival from Brooklyn with the Red Bird team yesterday afternoon. POST-DISPATCH PHOTO
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Lillian Musial received a bouquet of flowers and gave her husband Stan a big kiss as the crowd cheered.
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Stan and Lillian Musial at spring training in St. Petersburg, FL, in March of 1958. Photo by UPI
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Mrs. Stan Musial, left, and Mrs. Ray Sadecki, July, 1962.
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Stan Musial gets a kiss from his wife Lil after hitting the 3,000 hit of major league career in May of 1958 against the Chicago Cubs.
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Redbirds land at airport in April of 1961. From left, Stan Musial, his daughters Jean and Janice, Mrs. Lillian Musial and Bill White.
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Stan Musial poses in the Polo Grounds with with wife Lil and daughter Janet after hitting four consecutive home runs in a doubleheader against the New York Mets in September of 1962.
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July 12, 1962- President Kennedy greets Stan Musial and his family at the White House. Next to Musial are his wife Lil and daughter Janet. The Cardinal outfielder is holding a picture autographed by the chief executive. photo UPI
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Stan Musial, listening to speakers praise him as player and man, looks down during ceremonies marking his retirement as a player with St. Louis Cards on Sept. 30, 1963. With him are his wife, Lillian, and Jeannie, left, and Geraldine, right, their daughters. Sign in centerfield is tribute to Musial. (AP Photo)
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Oct. 20, 1963 --- 'LOTS OF LAUGHS FOR LIL, STAN. Some moments were poignant, some were funny last night as baseball writers toasted the retirement of Cardinal star Stan Musial. Stan and wife Lillian get a hearty laugh as Chicago Cubs slugger Ernie Banks hailed Stan's retirement '...on behalf of the NAACP--National Association for the Advancement of Cub Pitchin' '. Photo by Bob Holt/ST. Louis Post- Dispatch
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AUGUST 5, 1968-- Stan Musial, the former St. Louis Cardinals slugger, addresses a large crowd outside Busch Memorial Stadium Sunday where a statue honoring him was unveiled. His wife, Lil, and mother, Mary, center, unveiled the statue. AP wirephoto
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Mary Musial and Lillian Musial at the Hall of Fame induction for Stan Musial in1969.
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