A lifelong Orioles fan and co-founder of the Baltimore Orioles Diaspora of Greater New England, I recently retired from the University of Connecticut where I spent 35 years teaching courses in public policy, with specialties in family law and aging policy. During my last ten years at UConn, I also taught "Baseball and Society: Politics, Economics, Race and Gender." I have published several articles and book chapters for SABR, and I have also presented papers at the Cooperstown Symposium on Baseball and American Culture multiple times. While living in Japan in 2017 I visited every major league ballpark, Babe Ruth's statue in a Japanese zoo, and two noodle museums. Currently, I am the GM and field manager of the Bar Harbor Seagulls of the International Baseball Federation (IBF), a fictitious baseball universe that I created through Out of the Park Baseball (OOTPB) software. My residence is in Essex, CT which is about halfway between New York and Boston and 317 miles from my boyhood home in Hanover, PA, famous for Utz Potato Chips, Snyder’s Pretzels and Kuhn Auto Sales, sponsor of my very first little league team in 1954 – the same year the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore and became the Orioles. I am praying for a long rain delay as I am about to enter the 8th inning of my life.