The best podcast in baseball is brought to you by Closets by Design.

Update your closet, garage, office, pantry, and more.

Imagine your home totally organized with closets by design.

Call 1-800 by design.

That's 1-800 by design.

I'm Benjamin Hockman, and welcome to Playbacks, an audio series that brings to life the archives of the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, recorded and edited by Chris Lay.

Today we go to September 20, 1946, when Bob Breg first introduces Stan Musial as The Man, perhaps the greatest nickname in all of sports.

Dodgers route van der Meer, open date for cards.

Musial, the Man, gives Boston fans an eyeful, birds play cubs next.

By Bob Breg of the Post-Dispatch sports staff friday september 20th nineteen

forty six date line en route to chicago it took the baseball batty borough of brooklyn where you're a crumb bum if you're not a Dodger,

to supply with begrudging respect the best nickname yet bestowed upon Stanley Frank Musial.

To Brooklyn's fanatical baseball followers, Musial is simply the man.

In the recent series of Flatbush, where failure in a key series kept the Cardinals

from riding the rails today with more than the slim lead they hold, the appearance at

the plate of the Cardinals' apple-cheeked first baseman frequently brought from several

sections of the Ebbetsfield stands a distinct,

uh-oh, here comes the man again.

Not that man, but the name, but the name.

And the nickname so aptly applied to a self-effacing player,

one who lacks the color and cantankerous individuality of a Ted Williams,

summarized the around the league regard for

...