All Star Game Excites, Cards Drop The Ball
I’m pretty exhausted after spending over 40 hours over the past 4 days attending All Star Game festivities, but wanted to get my message out about how disappointed I was in one thing.
I don’t know if health reasons or other unknow circumstances caused the Stan Musial tribute/ceremony to be unceramonious, but what was that.
Everything I heard leading up to the event was that the Cardinals were going to try and give Stan the Man the same recognition Ted Williams received in 1999 with a moving ceremony/tribute. That, in my opinion, did not even come close to happening.
During the All Star Game pregame ceremonies I was enjoying from the left field bleachers, I see the wagon gate open in right field and a piece of grounds crew equipment brings Musial out from the right field corner down the first base line. He stops and waves. They introduce the President, he comes out, shakes Musial’s hand and takes the ball from him to throw out the first pitch. After this, everything dies down. Musial does stop as Joe Torre comes out of the National League dugout to spend a couple of minutes with Stan, but then retreats to let Stan cart down the right field line again and out the right field wagon gate.
I know with Stan’s health, there probably wasn’t much on the field they could have done, but they didn’t even have a video tribute to not only one of the games finest players, but one of the finest baseball ambassadors ever known.
More to come on the rest of my All Star weekend experience, which overall was pretty amazing.
Matt Wilson
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