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Posted By: davidcycleback

I read Morey got one of his cards autographed by Cobb in Coopertown. Asked Cobb to sign it while Cobb was eating breakfast in a cafeteria. I believe Morey started collecting as a kid through the mail when the autographs had minimal if any financial value. All along he disliked the idea of autographs being worth money, but finally sold his collection after he retired.

Another interesting big old time collector of both baseball and non-sport autographs was historian M. Watt Espy Jr. of Alabama. Espy is regarded and academically cited as the world's leading authority on the history of the American death penalty, and just so happened to have the hobby of collecting celebrity autographs through the mail. He was even interviewed in the New York Times, but about the death penalty not autographs.