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Sports in the Family

By Maureen A. Taylor

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Like many of you, I’m glued to the TV and online news sources watching the Olympics. While I don’t have any Olympic hopefuls in my house, there are plenty of athletes on the family tree: In one oft-told tale, my husband’s grandfather had an opportunity to play for a major league baseball team, but his father made him go to law school instead.

Do you have a photo of an ancestral athlete? Send it to me and I’ll share it in this space. Got a story to go with it? I’d love to hear it.

I looked through my archive of recent submissions to this column, but couldn’t find a mystery family photo that fit the theme of sports. Instead, I’ve pulled one from the Library of Congress.

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George Grantham Bain took this photo, captioned, “Champion Australian girl swimming team,” April 8, 1919. Bain was a news photographer who primarily worked in New York City. Haven’t found the associated news story to go with it yet, but I’m still looking.

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