![]() ![]() Like most fathers, he wanted a better life for his son and believed college would be his ticket to success. Musial said his father rejected the offer, telling the scout, “My son is going to college.” Musial’s father worked in a steel mill and never got a college education. The scout told Musial’s father he wanted to sign his son to a contract. He said when he was in high school during the Depression a baseball scout came to his hometown of Donora, Pa. I forget what I said in the speech-and the audience probably has long forgotten, too-but I will always remember having lunch with Stan Musial. “We are members of the same sports club.” I told the person who invited me I would come on one condition: that I could meet Stan Musial. In September 2007, I was invited to make a speech to a civic group in St. Baseball great Stan Musial died over the weekend. ![]()
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