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Awesome Stan Musial Story! · Kenny Wallace Media

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  Let me give you one example of why Mr. Musil is the consummate
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  sportsman. And back in the early 70s I when
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  I owned Bill Rose Tavern, Billy Rose over in Alton, the Anheuser
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  Busch distributor there, Bob Dixon.
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  The Dixon family were good friends of mine, of course,
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  because I sold a lot of their product.
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  And so back in those days, they had a businessman special 12:15
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  on Wednesday, which I see a lot of the games this year are
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  scheduled at 12:15. So Bob calls me.
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  So listen, he said be out here next Wednesday.
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  We're going to go to the ball game.
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  They're going to bring Mr. Bush's bus over and we're going
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  to ride over on that. So those were in my drinking
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  days. I haven't had a drink in about
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  25 years, but I'll sell you all night long.
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  So I got out to the warehouse about 9:00 and we started
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  drinking Mr. Bush's finest little Michelob.
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  And so here comes the bus and big Prevos bus, private bus, of
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  course. And Bill, across from the
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  brewery, was on it. And two guys, one guy driving,
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  they had a horn. You hit the horn and go and he's
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  serving beer and peanuts and all that.
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  So Cincinnati's playing that day.
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  And for you kids, you won't remember this, but they had a
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  guy the name of Don Gullett who can throw the ball almost as
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  hard and as fast as Bob Gibson. And so they were pitching gullet
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  that day against Gibson and we had a course.
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  Those were in the days. You have to remember fans, the
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  Cardinals used to draw 1213 thousand people back in the 70s
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  before Whitey. And so I'm sitting right behind
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  the home plate and the game starting and and Bill Crossman
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  Brewery said let's talk to Mr. Bushes Private box, the Red Bird
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  roost. I said I want to watch the game.
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  He said No problem, You can sit outside up there and watch it.
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  So we go up and I get a hamburger and a beer and I'm
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  sitting out there and nobody else out there but me and Gibson
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  and and Gullet. And I said to myself, man, these
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  guys are throwing some heat today.
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  And the voice behind me says, yeah, they're they're on it.
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  And I and I recognize the voice and it's the man.
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  It's Mr. Mitchell. And I turn around and he stuck
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  his hand out and he said I'm standing.
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  I said I know who you are. And he said what are you doing
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  here in Mr. Bush's box? And I said, well, I rode over on
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  his bus and what I didn't tell you guys was when I was riding
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  over on his bus there was a red phone.
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  Now this was before cell phones or what have you.
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  This was in the 70s, so I asked Bill Cross, I said what is that
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  phone? He said.
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  That's Mr. Bushes private phone. You calling place in the world?
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  I said, can I call my dad? He's a hell of a Cardinal fan.
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  He said sure. So it's about 11:30 and Dad
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  happened to be in the house at that time and I got him on the
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  phone and he says, what are you doing?
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  I said I'm on August buses, Bush on the way to the ballpark.
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  He said, you mean you're on August bushes?
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  I said, yeah, I've had a couple of beers.
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  He said be careful. And so we talked.
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  And so to bring it back to speed, we go up to the Red Bird
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  Roost. I get the ball and I go out and
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  I'm sitting down and Mr. Mutual shakes my hand.
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  He said what are you doing here? I said, well I wrote over on Mr.
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  Bushes bus and he said, well that's quite a ride And and I
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  said it sure was. And I said I even called my dad
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  and he said, oh, he said see a Cardinal fan.
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  I said the biggest man and so no more was said.
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  And about the 2nd inning, it's about 1:00 and I get a tap on
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  his shoulder and I turn around. It's Mr. Musil.
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  He said let's go call your dad. I said, Mr. Musil, I can't, I
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  don't want to. He said don't worry, there's a
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  pay phone right outside. He said let's go call him.
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  So we get out there and I call and I get Dad on the phone.
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  He's still on a pay phone. You know, I put the change.
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  I thought maybe the man might loan me the money but anyway, I
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  I put it in and so he says what's his name?
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  And I says Charles and he gets on the phone.
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  He says, hey, Charlie said I'm sorry.
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  I get a little emotional. He say, Charlie said this is
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  Stan the man. We're here at the ball game.
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  I'm with Billy. I just want to tell you hi.
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  He talked to my dad for two or three minutes.
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  Seemed like an eternity to me. Got off the phone and I said,
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  Mr. Musil I can't thank you enough.
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  And he said he said don't. No problem.
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  They told that story at my dad's funeral.
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  So when Mr. Musil died, I went to his funeral.