ST. LOUIS (AP) – Hall of Famer Stan Musial’s Stan the Man Inc. is closing shop in St. Louis this week.

The building where the former St. Louis Cardinals player signed memorabilia until a month before he died is closing its doors due to a decreasing inventory. Dick Zitzmann, vice president of the company, told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that Musial still meant a lot to St. Louis, and that the current cache of signed items would last four to six months.

According to Zitzmann, there were 6,000 to 7,000 balls in the inventory when Musial died in January 2013 at the age of 92. Today there are none left.

The paper reports that Musial would show up at Stan the Man every single morning and autograph pictures, balls and jerseys from 10:30 to 11:30.

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Information from: St. Louis Post-Dispatch, http://www.stltoday.com

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