The Chicago Cubs and the St. Louis Cardinals were playing a game in Chicago that meant nothing in the standings. It was too early to know this game would mean nothing in the pennant race, though. It was still spring, when baseball fortunes are yet to be made. The home team lost. But the story wasn’t the score or how the game was played. The story is who played it – one man named Stan Musial.

AUDIO: AOWM May 13, 2005 (mp3)