Stan Musial has won the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
We don't know him, but he's a maternal relative [insert historical-family-feud-and-failed-reconciliation story here].
The first time I saw a photograph of Stan Musial, it was many years ago in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. My first reaction was, "Oh my God, what did [my grandfather] do this time to get his picture all the way into an AMERICAN newspaper?!?"
My grandfather was a well-known environmentalist in our little part of Canada, so his picture was in the newspaper on a regular basis. But that was mostly constrained to the local region, hence my confusion. I had to sit down and read the Post-Dispatch article twice before it clicked for me that the man pictured was NOT Charlie Musial - it was just a guy who looked startingly like him, by obvious virtue of genetics.
Finding that newspaper article was an odd experience I remember vividly to this day.
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| That guy on the left. From http://www.stan-the-man.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&products_id=222 |
The first time I saw a photograph of Stan Musial, it was many years ago in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. My first reaction was, "Oh my God, what did [my grandfather] do this time to get his picture all the way into an AMERICAN newspaper?!?"
My grandfather was a well-known environmentalist in our little part of Canada, so his picture was in the newspaper on a regular basis. But that was mostly constrained to the local region, hence my confusion. I had to sit down and read the Post-Dispatch article twice before it clicked for me that the man pictured was NOT Charlie Musial - it was just a guy who looked startingly like him, by obvious virtue of genetics.
Finding that newspaper article was an odd experience I remember vividly to this day.
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