even in the mid 70's Feller was a fast signer. When I met him at a home run derby he pitched between games of a double header he started with a stack of page sized printed pictures with career highlights on the back. Probably about 2000 of them. I was one of the last kids to go up, shy even though he was sitting in the stands. Got a couple pictures and a piece of paper for dads autograph book, and ended up talking pitching for a bit (I had no idea just how cool that was until later) by the time he said he had to go keep the grownups happy the stack of pictures was gone. Many of them made into paper planes and thrown around and off the top of the stadium.
He didn't even mind that, it was just kids being kids,
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