Collecting Autographs in the good old days

[RichardSimon]

I started collecting autographs TTM about 27 years ago.
My son and I found old timers addresses in Baseball Hobby News (remember that one?) and it seemed like a fun thing to do. At that time I was only collecting baseball cards and autographs seemed more intimate and interesting to me.
I kept logs outlining who we wrote to, when we wrote to them and when they returned the autograph.
I kept the logs all these years and thought the results would be of interest to the board.
Bobby Thomson took 11 days from my mailing to my getting his autograph back.
Hubbell 14, Joe DiMaggio (yes he signed TTM back then,but only 1 at a time) 31 days, Durocher 8, Maglie 8, Mize 12, Snider 24, Irvin 8, Greenberg 8, Berra 17, B. Robinson 7, Wilhelm, 7, Aaron 76, Terry 7, Spahn 9, Gehringer 32, Feller 5, Reese 9, Koufax 28, Slaughter 7, Alvin Dark 99, Alston 7, Boudreau 39, Hoyt 7, Appling 260, Kell 10, Mathews 8, Dickey 18, Roush 12, Sewell 11, Roberts 7 (made up for him shooting me down as a kid outside the Polo Grounds), Judy Johnson 6, Drysdale 7, Musial 10.
There were many more but those are the highlights.
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