Faces Of Statues In The Rain: Dizzy Dean

Outside of Busch Stadium are a group of statues of the greatest Cardinal baseball players. Many of the names will be unfamiliar to people from other places. This is Jan Dean (not to be confused with Jan and Dean), known to all as Dizzy Dean, a pitcher during the 30s and 40s. The droplets on his skin could be from a miserable St. Louis summer day.

Before this series is over we'll get to Bob Gibson, the best Cardinal pitcher of all time.          

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Downtown black and white continues with more from around the baseball stadium. There are smaller statues, less than half life-size, a short distance from the giant figure of Stan Musial we saw yesterday. This is the shadow of the statue of Dizzy Dean, the last pitcher in the history of the Major Leagues to win 30 games in a season. That was in 1934. This statistic is meaningless to those who don't know baseball, of course.

I thought this was an interesting image. He could just as well have been bowling.