Looking for a Sadaharu Oh autograph
 

Either on a index card, paper or 8x10

oh
 

if want him on a shikishi, let me know. excuse that it posted sideways
Attachment 593448

Replied

Picture right side up

thanks, how do you turn it?

I wonder if he still gets fan mail.....

Of course he does

If Babe Ruth was still alive, would he still get fan mail?

That’s exactly the level he sits for a country with with a population of 123+ million people…probably gets a letter or two.

There is a story that when Oh became a star in the early 60s he started getting thousands of fan letters and just didn’t have the time to read them so mostly ignored them. Later though he was told about a kid at a special needs school who had sent him a letter and was saddened by the lack of a reply, after which he started (presumably with the help of a secretary) sending replies.

He is an executive with the Softbank Hawks now and fan mail can be sent there, but from comments here and there it seems he no longer replies.