So long to the Stan the Man--the great Saint Louis Cardinal Stan Musial, from Donora, Pennsylvania, who's been on my list of subjects for my western Pa. poem project. He was my father's favorite player, when my dad was a little boy; so for his 72nd birthday, I gave him a vintage Stan Musial button.

Stan was a grown man when my father was a kid listening to the radio. Then they both grew up to be old.