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Posted By: Roland

In 1982 at the Cooperstown HOF ceremony, you could still go to the Otsego Hotel and get autos from the HOFers. They put tables on the rear veranda. HOFers filled them and signed autos for FREE,
They did this two days. The line formed early in the morning each day and was a mile long ( not really a mile ). Stan Musial came down the steps and started to sign anything you had. A crowd began to gather and he told eveyone to get back in line, that he would sign for everyone in line, " Just don't crowd around me". And he did. The next day he came down again and did the same thing. I have pictures of him signing for my son. I can't imagine anyone else of that stature doing something like that. A great memory of a grat ballplayer.