Where Did Dick McBane go?

Dick McBane writes from Georgia to answer that question:

Here is a brief up-date as you requested.

My wife (Marilynn) and I moved from Akron to Lilburn, GA, in May. Lilburn is a suburb of Atlanta, northeast of the city and outside the beltway. Geographically, our house is about four or five miles from the Stone Mountain State Park, a landmark which a few people may recognize.

We made an offer on this house on the Monday after Thanksgiving and actually took physical possession of it on Dec. 31. We did not move here, however, until May 5. After 37 years in the same house in Akron, it took us five months to reduce our accumulation of stuff to a size that could be moved. The advantage of this location is that it is within a quarter-mile of our oldest son, Lachlan, his wife, Cheryl, and four grandchildren, Sean, 10, Huell, 7, Liam, 4, and Dorothy, 2. Our younger son, Roderick, resides in Galveston, TX. Lachlan is a violist (viola not violin) with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. Roderick is an actuary with American National Insurance Co. in Galveston.

Our moving preparations were made a bit more hectic for me because I'd also signed a book contract with McFarland & Co. with a completion date of May 15 for the manuscript. I actually got it off to them before we moved and it is supposed to be on their spring publication list for release around the opening of baseball season, although I haven't seen any proofs yet. "A Fine-Looking Lot of Ball Tossers" focuses on the Akron professional team of 1881. Most of the players on the 1881 team subsequently played in the major leagues, many of them as early as 1882. I enjoy the research greatly and was particularly delighted with the discovery of a drawing of the 1881 ballpark.

Dick     RLMcBane@aol.com