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Originally Posted by Jabez54
Big Six, I take it you were originally from Massachusetts, huh ... great Dynasty stories ... grew up around Sudbury but roamed around Boston, as a Southie ...
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Thanks, Jabez54. I'm actually not from Massachusetts; I was born in Baltimore and grew up there, too.
My family does have a New England connection, though. My father's dad is from Coventry, Connecticut. He was a big Red Sox fan, and he took that allegiance with him when he moved to Baltimore in 1943. The Orioles were a minor league team then. Grandpa remained a Sox fan, although he began to root for the Orioles when they arrived in Baltimore.
The Red Sox have always been my second favorite team, by a wide margin. Pat O'Farrell might well have been an Oriole if his story had been set after 1954, but since he's from a half-century earlier, casting him as a Red Sox player was a natural choice.
I've still got some relatives in Connecticut, and my wife went to college in Massachusetts. The area is a favorite destination for family vacations, so I thought it would be fun to set this story in western New England.
Thanks again for your comment, and I hope you'll keep reading (and commenting, too)