Michener, Arthur Schlesinger, Byron (Whizzer) White, a couple of Kennedy wives, Jeff Chandler and Angie Dickinson. Nobody called them “red states” back then, but there was considerable disdain for the Democrats who came spilling off the chartered plane - James A. Kennedy to join a campaign in the Midwest. How likable was he? In the fall of 1960, Musial was recruited by John F. In the rabid heart of Brooklyn, Dodgers fans called him “that man,” endowing him with a nickname that outlasts his passing Saturday at 92. Stan the Man was considered the best, a potent mix of power and consistency. These were the late years of DiMaggio and Feller, the time of Williams and Robinson, the early years of Mays and Aaron. It needs to be said, over and over again, that Stan the Man was voted by The Sporting News as the best baseball player of the postwar decade, from 1946 through 1955.
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