Costas tells an anecdote about delivering the eulogy at Mickey Mantle's funeral and scanning the sanctuary and seeing Musial sitting alone.
"There were some people missing you might have expected to have been there'' Costas says. "In a split second you realize what has happened here. A man who no one would have marked absent - he wasn't linked to (Mantle), he wasn't a teammate, he played in the National League, never faced him except in an All-Star Game or a spring training game but he had decided that as a prominent member of the baseball fraternity and as somebody who Mickey cared about, that it was the right thing to do, to get out of bed that morning in St. Louis, get on a plane, fly to Dallas, make his presence known, express his respect and condolences - by himself - then go back to the airport and fly home.
"And sometimes you're just struck by an act of simple decency and kindness. Stan Musial had more than 3,000 lifetime hits. He's got about 3 million simple acts of decency and kindness.''