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Posted By: Richard Masson

In the late 1960s and early 1970s, the Hall of Fame would forward mail to retired players so you didn't need their specific addresses. We (my friends and I) reached Marquard, Doyle, Snodgrass, Meyers, Livingston, Claude Berry (not T206), Davey Jones, McBride in this manner back then. While they forwarded lots of mail, not everything made it. The above guys were at home, but perhaps some of the others were in nursing homes by then, or were unable to open and process mail (they were well into their 80s by then). Mostly we were able to reach the guys included in The Glory of Their Times.

Prior to the late 1960s, the interest in autographs and autographed cards was very low.