The Saint Louis Cardinals won baseball’s world series in 1982. You might say listeners of in-depth journalism got a home run of their own that year because that’s when Alabama Public Radio first went on the air. The APR news team is observing our fortieth anniversary by re-airing some of our best stories. This one is from last year. APR student intern Libby Foster witnessed the end of a tradition near the Tuscaloosa campus of the University of Alabama.