One of the most beloved baseball players ever to play in the USA was Stan Musial. He played for the St Louis Cardinals for 22 years, between 1941 and 1963, and was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. He was born of Polish parents in Pennsylvania in 1920 and died in Missouri in 2013 . During his career, he hit an average of .331 and also hit 475 home runs, with 1,951 runs batted in. In the 1960s Musial paid a visit to Communist-ruled Poland, striving to learn more about what prosperous Polish-Americans, such as himself, could do to aid their ancestral homeland. Musial, a devout Catholic, first met the Bishop of Krakow, Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, during that visit. They remained in touch over the years. When Wojtyla became Pope, he included St. Louis among his 1999 U.S. visit stops, reportedly at Musial’s urging. Musial didn’t shy away from offering his gift of friendship to those among the clergy.
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