Stan Pawloski

\n', 'Anthracite Origins\n', 'Pawloski was the son of a Polish immigrant coal miner who viewed professional baseball as a way to escape the hard life of a miner. "Growing up in the coal region can\'t help but make you physically and mentally tough," Stan explained in a 2000 interview. "It wasn\'t an easy life. The coal companies owned everything - the mining operations, stores, homes and even the miners themselves. The 1940s were especially difficult because the mines were closing down and there wasn\'t enough work for my father. That\'s probably why he told me, \'No one\'s ever going to give you anything, son. You have to earn it.\' That stuck with me."\n', '

While Pawloski starred for Newport Township High School in football, basketball and baseball, he spent his summers playing shortstop in the Anthracite leagues. He began at age 14 for Wanamie. Two years later, his high school baseb…