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Old 02-23-2025, 02:50 PM
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How far back can you go to claim a famous baseball player as a relative before it loses meaning? There's no right answer to that question I assume, but I wanted to share this from my family tree. I have cousins closely related to Dots Miller, which is much better than my claim. I know we have a grandson of the best pitcher of all-time here, which I can't compete with either, but I'll share anyway

John, I thought you were going to tell us that Larry Corcoran was a second cousin 6 times removed or something like that...




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I once shared a taxi cab from the airport with Paul Blair. That has to be close to counting, isn’t it?
I've sat by a few celebrities on planes during my life. One time I was two seats away from Jimmy Carter. It was Jimmy in the window seat, a secret service agent on the aisle, another secret service agent on the cross aisle with me by the window. I was able to speak with the former president for a few minutes.

Also sat next to Aaron Neville on a flight.

Another time, I was in first class coming from Europe and Johnny Bench was in business class.

Oh, if this is for athletes, I did sit next to Pat Day on a flight as well as Cheryl Miller.
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John, I thought you were going to tell us that Larry Corcoran was a second cousin 6 times removed or something like that...
He was one of the first people I looked up. Not much there to see. You can read my last answer, but I've looked up hundreds of baseball players with no better than 0.5% success.

James Fenimore Cooper was actually the first person I looked for a match because I have a long line of "Fenimore" men not too far back. I hit on the first one I checked, then I'm at 1% success rate since. Luckily (or not), I have nothing better to do, so I keep checking.
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