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Originally Posted by G1911
I agree. I think it's awesome that Feller signed everything a fan put in front of him for like 70 years. I don't get why this would be considered a bad thing.
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I know, right? And I suspect that from the point of view of a collector, it wouldn't be. I feel bad that they were unable to keep his museum open. I visited it twice. Both times I went, I was visiting Des Moines and it was just a short drive from there. And both times, they had pieces on loan from Feller's personal collection or others, including the bat Babe Ruth used to lean on in his final appearance at Yankee Stadium. The breadth of autographed material there when I visited was phenomenal, and extremely reasonable priced, and I was able to purchase some autographed HOF cards and a couple of signed HOF busts for the few bucks I had brought with me in my wallet. I was glad that some of the money was going to support his museum. This was probably 15-16 years ago. Unfortunately I never got to meet him and get an autograph in person. As someone else noted above, he was a great ambassador for the game.