t206 players, has anyone ever met a player?

[Michael B]

Hi All, I don't collect cards at all. The only ones I have are ones that are sent to me in the mail by Olympians. However, in a seemingly past life I collected baseball autographs in person and would go to the visiting team hotel in Boston. I would ocassionally go to Fenway for a game, though not often as I don't enjoy sitting there watching sports as I get bored. One of the times I went was for the Old-timers game in either 1984 or 1985, probably 1985. Joe Wood was at the game in a wheelchair. They introduced him and then brought him under the stands to go into the Red Sox locker room. I was standing there and had a few black and white photos of him pitching circa 1915, reprints of course. The people with him saw that I had them and told me to follow them. They took me into the locker room where he signed the photos for me. The only signatures he signed for the public that day. I want to think that it was 1985 as I recall thinking they were some of the last signatures he signed before passing away in July. So while I don't collect T-206's or other cards, I did meet one of the subjects in person.