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Originally Posted by thirdsaint
Interesting and well-written story reds! I wonder the significance of this as my memory has been waning over the years but pretty cool how you have attached such mystery to a father-son encounter with a legend!
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Thanks thirdsaint!
William lost his father when he was 4-years old. At age 11, Ruth became sort of a mentor and father-figure to him. Ruth himself never had a son of his own (not that we know of, anyway
). Years later, William returned the favor by getting Ruth a manager's job, something he desperately wanted IRL, but was denied. And now with Ruth's death approaching, I felt I had to address it somehow in my dynasty.
This is all a conceit on my part, of course. IIRC, it was just me thinking - 'hey, I've placed William in New York in the 1920s, and he's baseball mad - it only makes sense he was a fan of baseball's biggest and most colorful star. I wonder where I can go with that?'
The rest is hist, er, fiction.
