Jim
In 2000 I found an article talking about Castleton in an old scrapbook and it mention he was Mormon. The focus of the article was a perfect game he threw in 1905 for the Youngstown team. At the time the earliest documented Mormon athlete was Spencer Adams in the 1920's so when I made the discovery it was pretty significant and completely unknown. I was working on an article about him to submit to the LDS church and I was not very careful about keeping the research private and the cat got out of the bag before I could finish. Years later Bob Lemke did an article in SCD which made my research pointless so I never finished. I have been hoarding his cards and photos for years and years along with my brother and we have just about everything of his except for the Western Playground card and of course, an autograph. I have been asking around to old time collectors and dealers since 2000 and supposedly one old timer has an autograph but I cant confirm it. I even became friends in Law School with a guy who was his great great nephew (named Castleton) and neither he nor his geneology rich family knew anything about Roy. I sent about 2 dozen letters to all his descendants and relatives about 5 years ago and never got a response from any of them. Forget the Yankee collectors, if one ever came up for sale I would buy it. I would be prepared to pay whatever it took. Aside from Louis Sockalexis, Roy Castleton's autograph is one of my absolute "Holy Grails". I hope that helps explain a little better.
Rhys Yeakley
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