Nice story! I grew up in Baltimore and my friends dad went to HS with him. I believe it was Southern High School. He grew up in a neighborhood called Westport in Baltimore City. I found his house on google street view recently. Thepr is a big vacant lot at the end of the street. I imagined him playing ball as a kid in the lot . I like finding address on baseball related materials ( postcards, advertising stamps on the back of some issues, contracts) ) and Googling the address.
I have seen Jim Palmer’s house from the early 1970s (modest)., a brownstone in Brooklyn where a postcard was sent in 1916 ( now a jerk chicken store) and a address on the back of a 1860s Victorian bb card is now a Deli in Albany / Syracuse.. I forget the city.
Al was a class act. Never heard a bad word about him. I listened to a podcast a few days ago and Jim Kaat was saying how he hated facing Al. Al got the best of him !
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