I asked this on another OC forum but didn't get much response. Why didn't Baltimore ever have their own family? It seems like it would have been an ideal place for LCN to thrive. Old city on the east coast, it has a good size port that would have been ripe for picking back when LCN ran the waterfronts in places like NYC and Jersey. There is even a little Italy in Baltimore.
From the little info I can gather on Baltimore LCN it seems the Philly family had some rackets there but otherwise there is not much mob history there.
This has been number 1 question for years for those exact reasons. It blows my mind. How do cities like Denver (much much smaller back in the day), Rockford, Madison, Dallas, even Providence have families and Baltimore did not. Baltimore was one of the largest cities in the US back then.
