and was a longshoreman. We got along very well because he saw dozens of the games played by the famous Baltimore Orioles of the 1890s and I loved to hear about them. He went to St Annes and in 1894, so did 7 men who became honored in baseball's Hall of Fame. GGD became a good friend of Willie Keeler and not only saw him at church but at The Diamond, a sports bar established by John McGraw and Wilbert Robinson. My GGM, his wife, was born in Ireland and I knew her well but she prededed him in death.
Both GGPs on my father's side were alive when I was little but I seldom saw them. He was a worker on the steam packets that went between Baltimore and Norfolk.