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Originally Posted by molenick
Very cool. It's interesting that they would include Musial and Schoendienst (who were not players on the 1964 championship team....Musial was in the front office and Red was, I believe, a coach who became manager after the Series was over) as well as James and Maxvill (who were reserves) but not Gibson, Brock, Groat, McCarver, Flood, Javier, etc.
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Definitely a good question, I think maybe the simple answer is their rights were cheap. Stan and Red were both retired so likely no longer tied to many (if any) deals, so they were easy to pick up. The others Minus Ken (he's the mystery to me). Bill White was decent too, Dal and Charlie weren't the teams best players so probably also fairly affordable additions. Complete hunch but that is what makes sense to me.