with its failure to investigate fully the career and life of Stan Musial

Chass: MADDUX - PROVIDED UMPS WITH HOOKERS AND BLOW TO GET MORE FAVORABLE STRIKE ZONE

Wasn't Musial credited with preventing the Cardinals from boycotting a game against the Dodgers and Jackie Robinson?

Looking for a cite...

EDIT: Found a quote from Musial that there was no attempted boycott of the Dodgers and Robinson.

Chass: ERNIE BANKS - ONLY PLAYED ONE

Something about trouble in Thailand, guessed Murray.

As for Musial, he referred to the alleged incident only after reading about it in Flood's memoir in 1971. Then he told St. Louis Globe-Democrat columnist Bob Burnes that he could not understand why Flood was writing about it. 'In the first place, that was a long time ago. What point is there in bringing it up now?' In any event, Musial told Burnes, Flood was wrong about what had happened. Musial recalled that he, not the restaurant's maitre d', met Flood at the door at twenty minutes to one in the morning and said, 'Our kitchen closes at twelve thirty.' Musial added, 'I was the one who told him he couldn't come in, and I told him the reason why. I felt bad about it because he was a friend - and a teammate - but I've had to do the same thing many times. Biggie and I always had that rule. It applied to everybody." Sorrowfully, Musial asked, 'Why would he write about that for any reason - and why would he only tell half of the story?' Musial's rhetorical question was well put, although it is quite possible that he and Flood were referring to different occasions.

88. The Yankee Clapper Posted: March 24, 2011 at 03:48 PM (#3777551)
From # 39:

"Musial turned livid. He said he'd look into it. I never raised the topic with him again, nor did he with me.

"When I returned to the restaurant a few years later, St. Louis was no longer so blatant a Jim Crow town. This time the man at the door nearly piddled with joy.


Worth noting that in the interval between the two incidents, the Civil Rights Act of 1964 became law, with public accomodations provisions that we take for granted today.

Better not tell him about the Medals of Freedom that have gone to Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Whitaker Chambers, and ... the most insidious person ever ... Gregory Peck.

Chass: ERNIE BANKS - ONLY PLAYED ONE

Unlike many self-made men from poor backgrounds, Musial is a liberal, and his liberalism seems to deepen as he ages.

"I don't think Polish jokes or Jewish jokes or black jokes are really funny," he said. "My dad came out of Poland and worked like hell all his life. What was funny about that? Pulaski came out of Poland and helped out in the American Revolution. Was that a joke? I've just come back from Poland, and I enjoyed the country, the people and seeing them work hard building high rises. Some of them knew me. I brought my harmonica along and played a little."

I don't know, that just doesn't sound like a racist to me.

One or two years later [this would be mid-1950s], Mays found himself on a plane with Musial on the way to an All-Star Game. Several black players were in the rear, playing cards, and Musial walked up to them and stood there.
"I'm for playing the game," he told Mays.
"Stan," he said, "you can't play with us. We're all black."
"I want to play."
So Musial sat down and joined them. Mays recalls, "That told me how classy he was, and I never forgot that."

This is the third time Murray has taken the word, without corroboration, of a bitter 95-year-old man with a spotty memory, and each time been exceedingly, thoroughly incorrect. At some point, you'd think he'd realize that ol' Marv isn't quite the reliable source.

Chass: LEAVE IT TO BEAVER – HA HA, VERY FUNNY

The passage in question cites a piece by Burnes from April of 1971 (no date), called "The Bench Warmer", which ran in the Globe-Democrat.

No matter how many years or decades one toils in this reporting/writing business (I almost wrote newspaper business, but you’re not holding this in your hands and folding pages, are you?), it is never too late to learn something or have a previously learned lesson reinforced.

Such a moment occurred for me last week when a mistake I made reminded me that a reporter always has to check and verify his information and not take any information for granted. In writing a column about Marvin Miller’s latest failure to be elected to the Hall of Fame, I incorrectly identified one of the five members of the committee who blocked Miller’s election.

Tom Verducci wrote in his SI.com blog that contrary to what I wrote, he voted for Miller...

When I reported his alleged no vote, I was basing it on what Miller told me he had heard. Miller was not wrong for telling me what he heard; I was wrong for reporting it without checking it. The blame is strictly mine.

In 99.99 percent – no, make that 100 percent – of previous articles or columns, I checked something like that and confirmed it to my satisfaction before writing it. I should have done that in this instance and not taken a shortcut, but I was unable to because I was out of the country on vacation with no access to information, such as telephone numbers or e-mail addresses, for people who might have known....

Chass: APRIL 25, 1976: THE DAY RICK MONDAY RUINED FATHER AND SON BONDING

Chass: OSCAR CHARLESTON – NEVER SAW HIM PLAY

Better not tell him about the Medals of Freedom that have gone to Donald Rumsfeld, Dick Cheney, Whitaker Chambers, and ... the most insidious person ever ... Gregory Peck.