Lifestyles of the greatest

[Hankphenom]

Originally Posted by todeen

This is not alienated to Lombardi alone, it affects many individuals. Any retiree has a hard time transitioning to life after work - "how do I make my life meaningful?"

Of course. Life challenges everyone, no matter what our station, and we all deal with it the best we can. As the old saw goes, "they still put their pants on one leg at a time." But I think you'd be hard pressed to prove that baseball didn't make most of their lives better than they would have been otherwise, or that they didn't believe that it did.

[steve B]

The link to Frank Navins house was interesting. It's not all that much bigger than mine, although it has a much better floor plan that can be made to look huge in pictures. Mine is about 3500 square feet compared to 4000. A few streets away there are some houses that are closer to 5000sqf+

The main former owner was initially a partner in a wholesale grocery, and became president of Amalgamated Graphite around 1909-10. So sort of a minor captain of industry.

Renovations to the house were done around then.
A bit later -late teens- he paid taxes on about 11,000 in income.

That was also enough for him to build a house on Marthas Vineyard.

A while ago I looked up the owner of a machine tool company that was here in town, and found his house, still there. He owned a large factory making lathes etc, and his place was also very modest.