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Marc S.Was receiving a handwritten letter from Joe Brovia in response to a fan letter I sent him when I was twelve or so. Although he only played sixteen games or so in the Show, legend would have it that in the minor leagues he once smashed a home run 560 feet - often compared to the one Mantle hit in the same era.
More a random fluke thing than anything else - but I thought it was the neatest thing to receive an actual handwritten letter from a former MLBer...
~ms