Olive felt blessed to have grown up in a sports family; her father, Steve O'Neill was in the major leagues for more than 40 years and her husband, Skeeter, for 12 years, including playing shortstop for the 1945 Detroit Tigers World Series champions, a team managed by her father. James J. "Shamus" Corbett, Olive's second husband, was twice the heavyweight boxing champion of the Marine Corps during World War II and later became the most decorated state trooper in the history of the Pennsylvania State Police.
