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Docreed2003

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27. Hey MSgt, you'll appreciate this

Sun Mar 22, 2020, 01:41 PM

Mar 2020

When I was in college in the late 90's my roommate and I regularly drove up from our university in West TN to St Louis for Cardinals games. We were lucky enough to catch so many of the McGuire homer games during that season chasing Maris. Anyway, we drove up for a Saturday game and got to old Busch super early. Wasn't anything open around the stadium and we were waiting for the gates to open and decided to walk over to the players entrance. We were shaking hands with all these cards players and even the astros players coming in to the stadium, when this car pulls up and this older guy steps out. I immediately recognized him as Stan Musial but at first none of the other fans around us did. Got to shake his hand and chat for a sec...was really great. My roommate, a big baseball fan but he grew up in Guiana, had no idea who Musial was until after he had walked away. Was a pretty cool experience.

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