One Cardinal Remembers Another Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Stan Musial’S Love of Baseball and the Catholic Church

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1920 2013 One Cardinal remembers another Cardinal Timothy Dolan on Stan Musial’s love of baseball and the Catholic church.

BY TIM TOWNSEND [email protected] COMING SUNDAY 314-340-8221 A Stan Musial Special Section

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A little over a decade ago, St. Louis auxiliary Bishop Timothy 01.27.2013 STAN MUSIAL 1920-2013 SECTION S Dolan welcomed a priest from Baltimore traveling here on business. As the two drove to lunch, they began talking baseball. SO LONG, Both were fans of the game’s history. The priest mentioned his admiration for St. Louis as a baseball town, and as he STAN brought up the Baltimore Orioles’ evolution from the St. Louis Browns, Dolan hatched a plan. “I knew there was a chance that if I took him to Be! a’s, Stan might be there,” Dolan said in an interview this week. “And I knew if Stan was there, it would blow his mind.” Indeed, Musial was at Be! a’s. And he was sitting with Lou Brock, Jack Buck and Bob Gibson. He waved Dolan over, and the bishop and priest sat down to eat with the four Hall of Famers. Mass of Thanksgiving at the St. Louis Cathedral Basilica in May 2012. See ;FC8EGX^\8,

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FROM STAFF REPORTS The funeral was originally billed as Cardinal Timothy Dolan, archbishop fans who want to view the procession private, but the Cardinals later an- of New York and a longtime friend of to do so around the stadium and to be in JK% CFL@J Stan Musial’s funeral nounced the public can claim any the Musial family, will preside at the place by 12:30 p.m. Mass, which will have some seating for unfilled seats in the cathedral, after Mass with St. Louis Archbishop Rob- The Missouri Department of Trans- the public, starts at 11 a.m. today at the family, friends and guests have been ert Carlson and Bishop Richard Stika, of portation relieved a potential traffic St. Louis Cathedral Basilica on Lindell seated. Visitors should enter through Knoxville, Tenn. headache in the city by delaying plans to Boulevard. the main doors on Lindell. The Mu- Following the Mass, a funeral proces- close a stretch of Highway 40, between Lindell will be closed between News- sial family has asked that no photos sion will head to Busch Stadium, where Kingshighway and Forest Park Parkway. tead and Taylor avenues after the regu- or video be taken inside, and that any the family will lay a wreath at the base of MoDOT put o! the project by one week larly scheduled 8 a.m. Mass at the ca- mementos be left at the Musial statue the Musial statue and hold a prayer cer- because of weather forecasts calling for thedral. at Busch Stadium. emony. The Cardinals are encouraging precipitation.

FUNERAL PROCESSION TV, RADIO STATIONS TO BROADCAST MUSIAL FUNERAL Lindell Boulevard will be closed between Taylor and Newstead avenues The funeral Mass for Stan Musial and a procession to Busch Stadium afterward will be broadcast by several after the basilica’s regularly scheduled 8 a.m. Mass. Fans wishing to view local stations and streamed over the Internet: the procession are encouraged to do so outside of Busch Stadium KTVI-TV (Channel 2): Coverage from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. and be in place by 12:30 p.m. KMOV-TV (Channel 4): 10:30 a.m. to noon on main channel, and on Channel 4.2 until Mass ends. KSDK-TV (Channel 5): 10:30 a.m. until after the hearse drives past the Musial statue at Busch Stadium. Cathedral Basilica KPLR-TV (Channel 11): 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Forest St. Louis Park Procession KMOX radio (1120 AM): 11 a.m. through the Mass, and then periodic news reports from the procession to Closes route Jefferson Busch Stadium. after 8 a.m. Lindell WRYT radio (1080 AM) and KHOJ radio (1460 AM): From the beginning to end of Mass. Kingshighway SLU 70 Olive Portions of the Mass as they occur, such as the homily or spoken tributes. 64 Tucker WXOS (101.1 FM): Live streaming on archstl.org, the website of the Archdiocese of St. Louis, and on stlouis.cardinals.mlb. Market 8th Taylor Newstead com, the Cardinals’ site. Busch 100 Stadium I

short,” Dolan said. “.275?” DOLAN =IFD8( Musial shrugged. “Well, I’m 80,” he said. K_\knfY\ZXd\]i`\e[jn_`c\jg\e[è^k`d\kf^\k_\ièIfd\ GOING TO BAT FOR MUSIAL run out to the pay phone in the middle he said, ‘How are you, Slugger?’ I will Dolan’s love of baseball has led him to of lunch to call his brother.” never forget that.” seek out players in the cities where he’s Dolan is now the archbishop of New led the Catholic church. In Milwaukee, York and president of the U.S. Confer- IN UNION WITH THE CHURCH where he was archbishop before New ence of Catholic Bishops. As a cardinal, In the late 1970s, after Dolan had be- York, he hooked up with old Milwau- and prominent leader of the American come a priest, he would often celebrate kee Braves, including Johnny Logan and church, he is one of Pope Benedict XVI’s a packed Sunday 5 p.m. Mass at the Hank Aaron. In New York, he’s hung out most important consultants. It’s Dolan Church of the Immacolata in Richmond with Yogi Berra. whom President Barack Obama calls Heights. Musial, often on his way home “In the end,” he said. “All these guys when he needs to discuss policy that from the ballpark, was usually there. love telling Stan stories.” would a! ect American Catholics. “You’re standing there, and you’re Dolan said he was “ticked o! ” when And yet it was Musial’s double in trying not to notice that it’s Stan Musial he read a review of Vecsey’s biography a game against the Cubs in 1958 — his coming up to get Holy Communion,” in the New York Times that was criti- 3,000th hit — that seared into the Dolan said. “And here comes one of the cal of Musial for lacking the fl air of a Joe 8-year-old Tim Dolan’s memory and greatest ball players ever — he had the DiMaggio or Mickey Mantle. became “a defi ning moment of my life,” world by the tail — and yet the reverence “Musial’s greatness on the ball field he said. with which he approached this sincere is never in doubt,” wrote the book’s re- Dolan and Bishop Richard Stika of act of faith, this union with the Lord in viewer, Jonathan Eig. “O! the fi eld, and Knoxville, Tenn., will preside at Mu- church. That’s what it’s all about.” on the printed page, however, this Hall sial’s funeral today at the Cathedral Dolan and Musial got to know each of Famer comes across as a decent but Basilica. St. Louis Archbishop Robert other well in Rome, after Dolan was passive figure. Call him Stan (Not Al- Carlson will celebrate the Mass. named rector of the North American ways the Man) Musial.” For Dolan, the funeral will be a good- Pontifi cal College in the 1990s. Dolan took to his blog, responding bye to part of his childhood. From the Musial and his friend Ed Piszek — the that Musial was “one of the best base- ages of 6 to 16, the Cardinals “meant the founder of fi sh stick maker Mrs. Paul’s ball players ever, an inspiration to gen- world” to Dolan, he said. Every morn- Kitchens, Inc. — traveled to Poland in erations, whose very name stands for ing during the season, he woke up and the 1970s to support youth athletics and integrity, professionalism, loyalty, and grabbed the Globe Democrat to check education. The two men helped found ASSOCIATED PRESS championship. If that’s ‘boring,’ bottle the baseball standings and box scores. a Little League center in Kutno, and in Cardinal Timothy Dolan, then head of it and sell it.” On so many summer nights, he fell their travels they met the archbishop of the Archdiocese of Milwaukee, smiles in Musial was a longtime member of asleep to the voices of Harry Caray and Krakow, Karol Wojtyla. 2002 before throwing out the fi rst pitch St. Stanislaus Kostka, but as soon as Jack Buck calling the games. Once a year Dolan said Musial later told him that at a Milwaukee Brewers game against the troubles began between the Polish or so, Dolan’s father took him to see The one of the greatest thrills of his life was the St. Louis Cardinals in Milwaukee. church and the St. Louis Archdiocese, Man at work in Sportsman’s Park. not when he reached the 3,000-hit Musial sided with the archbishop. His boyhood, Dolan said, “was a mark, but on Oct. 16, 1978, when Woj- “He looked at the church as a family healthy fantasizing about baseball as tyla was elected Pope John Paul II. “I’m entitled to be here because I’m — with all its flaws and periodic dys- personified by Stan — about talent, Musial’s visits to Rome — where he also a Cardinal,” Musial told them. function, you still love it,” Dolan said. consistency and day-in-day-out lead- and other friends of John Paul were led In 2001, after Dolan was named a St. “He was born in it and he died in it. And ership of the club.” up the Vatican’s “Polish staircase” to Louis auxiliary bishop, the two men ran he loved it.” When Dolan was about 10, he and his the pope’s private apartment — meant into one another at a Mass Dolan was When Pope Benedict XVI elevated brother were at Lambert Field to pick up visits with Dolan . celebrating at the Church of the Annun- Dolan to be a cardinal a year ago, con- their grandmother from a trip to New “When I would see Stan on those oc- ziata in Ladue. ferring on him the traditional scar- York. As they waited at the gate, they casions, he was always beaming,” Dolan Musial grabbed Dolan after Mass let biretta, Musial sent Dolan a note of saw Musial, and their father encouraged said. “He was so fond of the Holy Fa- and they went to Schneithorst’s Co! ee congratulations and an autographed St. them to go shake his hand. ther.” House, where Musial was a regular, for Louis Cardinals cap. In his homily at St. Patrick’s Cathe- According to George Vecsey’s biogra- breakfast. As Dolan told the story in his “Here’s a real red hat,” he wrote. dral in New York last Sunday — a day phy, “Stan Musial: An American Life,” homily at St. Patrick’s last weekend , he Dolan said this week that Musial after Musial’s death — Dolan recalled Musial and the pope — both athletes — asked Musial — who had a career bat- “would be what you might call a classi- the memory for his fl ock. were “physically and psychically com- ting average of .331 — what he might bat cal meat-and-potatoes, salt-of-earth, “I can remember meeting him when I fortable with each other.” if he was playing today. light-of-the-world Catholic.” was 10 years of age, and it’s as if it were During one early-morning trip up the “Ahh. If I were playing today, with ev- “Priests will tell you there’s a Catholic yesterday when I went up to him and I Polish staircase for a private Mass with erything — with a juiced-up ball and bat chemistry they can see in some people, said, ‘Hi, Stan,’ ” Dolan said at the ser- John Paul in his personal chapel, some and AstroTurf, I might hit .275,” Musial and Stan had it in abundance,” Dolan vice, which was recorded by the arch- American priests recognized Musial, said. continued. “He’s in the only Hall of diocese. “And he rustled my hair and according to Vecsey’s book. “Stan, I think you’re selling yourself Fame that really counts right now.”

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