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Podcast: Classic Baseball Daily Highlights
Episode: July 8 - Musial has a Day
Description: 1941 - At the All-Star Game at Briggs Stadium, Ted Williams, hitting .405 at the break, homers off Chicago Cubs P Claude Passeau with two out and two on in the ninth inning to give the American League a dramatic 7 - 5 victory. Williams's 4 RBI are matched by National League SS Arky Vaughan, who hits homers in the seventh and eighth. Williams would end the season hitting .406 and is the last batter in MLB history to reach that mark. 1962: With home runs in his first three at bats, 41-year-old Stan Musial of the Cardinals not only becomes the oldest player...