Former Post-Dispatch sports editor Bob Broeg, whose quirky and insightful accounts of the legends of sport made him one of the early inductees into the writers' wing of the National Baseball Hall of Fame, died Friday (Oct. 28, 2005) at age 87
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Mr. Broeg saw most of the Cardinals' World Series games either as a youthful fan or as a chronicler of the sport for the Post-Dispatch.
Baseball was Mr. Broeg's favorite sport, the Cardinals his favorite team and Stan Musial his favorite player. It was Broeg who gave Musial the sobriquet "The Man."
The full article is rather long, but quite interesting.
