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Steve O'Neill played alongside Babe Ruth (centre) and Lou Gehrig (right) and went hunting with the former.
While the work was tough, the O’Neill family could not have picked a better location to call home if they hoped to raise a family of ball players.
“Per capita, more baseball players come out of the Pennsylvania region than any other place in the US. I don’t know what it is but they’re baseball mad,” says Geoghegan.
Four sons — Mike, Jack, Steve and Jim — would find success at the game’s highest level but one really made his mark on the game.
A tribe called west: The forgotten Galway brothers who once ruled baseball
