Whether you connected to Rusty Staub best as a player, as a broadcaster or as a humanitarian — or if you were fortunate enough to know him firsthand — he stood out, right? The red hair. The batting ...

Rusty Staub was all about hitting. “As soon as we were able to get up and walk, Dad had bats made for us,’’ Chuck Staub, 76, said Thursday after the death of his brother, who would have turned 74 on ...