St. Louis baseball writer Bob Broeg dies

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- Bob Broeg, the St. Louis sportswriter who nicknamed Stan Musial "Stan the Man," died last week, the day after the end of the World Series.

Broeg, 87, spent most of his career with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. In 1985, he went into semi-retirement but continued to write columns.

Musial, a mainstay of the Cardinals in the 1950s, told the paper Broeg learned that when Brooklyn Dodgers fans saw him coming up to bat at Ebbett's Field, they would mutter "Here comes that man."

"He gave me the name 'Stan the Man' and was the first one to call me that in the paper."

While he covered other sports, the Cardinals and baseball, along with University of Missouri football, were his primary passions. He was inducted into the Baseball Hall of Fame as a writer and served on the board of directors and on the Veterans' Committee, which searched for outstanding players who had been overlooked.

Broeg's wife, Lynnette, said that she teased her husband, a few hours before his death, that he waited to go into the hospital until the end of the baseball season.