[jtur88]

I suppose it is considered remarkable that somebody actually came from there and made good, as compared with the renowned residents who settled there including Scott Carpenter, Gary Carter and Serena Williams. And being from NYC, famous people who came from there do not attract very much attention as home-town boys, unless they grew up on your block. But as a kid who grew up in a small century-old farm town (15 miles from Addie Joss' hometown), and whose father grew up in Mark Twain's home town, the concept of 'home town boy makes good' has a rather different luster.

I have a cousin who lives about 3 miles east of you, and I can't imagine anybody in his neighborhood even knowing each other, much less thinking of anybody as a home town boy.

This is not to put you down or diminish your sense of pride, by the way. Only to contrast how people from different social envorinments can hava a differenct sense of the meaning of home-town. I only moved to this town a year ago, and I have a sense of pride that it is the hometown of Doug Drabek and Ron Gant. (Drabek's son was just chosen in the '08 draft)