Great posts! Love seeing these.
I had a great back and forth letter correspondence with Bobby Thomson about 10 years ago since we lived in the same area at one point and he referenced friends he had in the town I lived in.
I also wrote to Dom DiMaggio when I was younger, and I was playing outside with a friend and my dad comes out of the house and says "Mr. DiMaggio is on the phone." At this point, I thought "Mr. DiMaggio? He's dead!" (Joe had passed), and then I immediately remembered Dom. I had seen Dom on a TV program and a few weeks earlier and wrote to him about it, and he called to give me financial and baseball advice. I don't think I ever received an autograph back, but the phone call was priceless! Apparently, he just looked my family's number up in the white pages because I didn't send it to him.
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