In February, President Barack Obama presented baseball great Stan Musial with the presidential Medal of Freedom. It was Musial’s second White House visit—and DLA Piper of counsel John Zentay was there both times. In 1962, Zentay was a 30-year-old aide to Missouri senator Stuart Symington, assigned to show Musial around the nation’s capital—a tour that included an impromptu stop at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue. Bar Talk spoke with Zentay, 78, who attended this year’s event thanks to his DLA colleague, former U.S. senator Tom Daschle, about his ties to “Stan the Man.” What follows is an edited transcript.
I grew up in St. Louis. My grandfather, who owned a minor league baseball team when he was a young man, started taking me to baseball games when I was probably 5 years old. So I saw the old St. Louis Cardinals, the last of the “Gashouse Gang,” and of course I saw Stan Musial many times. I got to know him a little bit in St. Louis because my uncle and my cousin were friends of his.
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