Thanks for your kind words (and for the bump).
I can't begin to count the hours I enjoyed in the company of Pat O'Farrell and his "base ball" world. One of these days I'll revisit it, in some form, because I still have some O'Farrell stories to tell.
Looking back, I wish I hadn't tried to move the O'Farrell files to OOTP7. They were messed up somehow in the transition, and I foolishly tried to play through them. I'd saved a backup, but by then I'd already written more of the history, and I didn't feel like I could go back and edit it then.
I know the length of the thread kept people from reading it, and I wasn't sure what to do about that. Maybe I should have written the story in volumes, each with its own thread. If I ever write another dynasty of that length, that's what I'll do.
Pat's league files actually still reside on an old computer I hardly ever use anymore; I think it's 1935 or so, which means that version of the story would be six or seven years behind the point where the original thread ended. One of these days I might have to open it up again.
Thanks again for your comments. It's good to see Pat back on the front page.