Cleaning Up: Neal McDonough Rabbit Hole Update

August 25, 2026 · 0 comments

Received a notice from my hosting company that I was over the limit on space, so now I have the odious chore of going back and clearing space.

I had forgotten how far back this iteration of the Bookshelf went — more than 20 years (before that I used different services such as Blogspot and others).

So while I was doing that, I started going through a bunch of drafts I had never posted. Here’s one of them.

Back in 2024, I wrote about the actor Neal McDonough’s bona fides as an onscreen ballplayer.

One was as Lt. Buck Compton in Band of Brothers. Today I found this about the man he portrayed:

He also appeared as a pitcher in the remake of Angels in the Outfield  and an episode of Quantum Leap.

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