The list of things that have been bypassed, never properly celebrated or mourned over the past seven months is long, and there’s another one for the list: the 100th anniversary of Stan Musial’s birth.
Musial was born on Nov. 21, 1920, in Donora, Pa., but he became synonymous with a baseball career, and a post-baseball life, spent in St. Louis. But after big plans were made to celebrate the milestone anniversary for Musial, who died in 2013, at this year’s Musial Awards for sportsmanship at Stifel Theatre (which by total happenstance fell on his birthday), they had to be scrapped because of COVID-19.