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Jun 22, 2022Liked by Cate Plys

I just saw that someone answered your question, she is on facebook, I am not, but I did see this. https://radaris.com/p/Rena/Donofrio/. Just another tidbit for you, Denny McClain married another south suburban, Lou Boudreau's daughter. Lastly your comment about checking pay phone slots, which I think most kids did back in the day. I used to play an early version of a legal slot machine, we would go to the laundromat at a 144th and Indiana with a dollar bill and keep trying to make change that added up to more than a dollar, rare, but it did happen. Of course sometimes you go ripped off and lost money.

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Jun 22, 2022Liked by Cate Plys

And another sports related item to this thread, Accardo's grandson played for the Dolphins and the Bears. His great grandson played for the Packers

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It's seriously good to know they could get past their family history. Thanks for sharing that.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Cate Plys

Even Vito Corleone hoped for a different life for Michael.

He is the grandson of Chicago Outfit mob boss Tony Accardo, the son of Palmer Pyle, former NFL player, the father of Buffalo Bills wide receiver Jake Kumerow, the brother-in-law of former Miami Dolphins first-round pick John Bosa, and the uncle of Los Angeles Chargers defensive end Joey Bosa and San Francisco 49ers defensive end Nick Bosa.[19] He now resides in the Chicago suburb of Bartlett, Illinois.[4]

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I'd forgotten that Eric was supposed to be a qb. More interesting stuff at this link. https://bleacherreport.com/articles/2415369-chasing-a-family-legacy-jake-kumerows-nfl-draft-dream-comes-full-circle

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Thanks, I'll check out that link! I should have mentioned Lou Boudreau, you're so right. I know someone who grew up on his block in Dolton--on Ellis, something like the 15600 block--and Joe Pepitone came to visit the Boudreau household one time and of course the block went nuts. My friend says Lou Boudreau's house was just a typical little red brick ranch with no more than three small bedrooms, on the corner, with no real yard to speak of even. It's funny to think of how modestly he lived. And why did he pick the south suburbs when he worked for the Cubs? Anyway, my friend says he was known to be one of the nice dads on the block.

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Jun 24, 2022Liked by Cate Plys

Didn't know many people from over that way until high school and some of my fellow bus riders were from St Jude or Holy Ghost parishes. Lou was from Harvey, so not totally surprising that he would stay in the south suburbs. It's not like today's athletes that make a ton of money and move to the North Shore. In his day they often had to have side hustles for the off season. He probably made more doing the Cubs games than he did playing the game. Wasn't a Cub fan, but since you could not see many Sox games as a kid, it was always kind of interesting to hear him talk on air to kids about how to play the game.

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