Show and tell Bob Feller

[Jobu]

A 10- or 11-year-old Jobu was at a show and didn't know that there was an autograph guest, let alone that it was Bob Feller. I see him walking through the lobby, recognize him, work up the courage to walk over and ask "Mr. Feller, can I please have your autograph?" He looks at me and deadpans "Yeah. Buy a ticket." And turns and walks away. Grown up Jobu realizes that he was there to make money and understands the answer, but the delivery and lack of even a hint of a smile or acknowledgement of the awe young Jobu was clearly showing permanently turned me off to him.

[71buc]

Sorry Jobu! Albert Belle was nicer to my 10 year old son than Rapid Robert was to Jobu.

[Bill77]

I went to his museum in 2002 and got bought an autographed card.

[mrreality68]

Originally Posted by Bill77

I went to his museum in 2002 and got bought an autographed card.

nice autographed museum card.

Like the look of it

[Tao_Moko]

That sucks Jobu. Sometimes our hero's turn out not to be a**holes. Mine became a good friend and my daughters namesake - Story Musgrave.

[abothebear]

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[obiwan1129]

I've heard that Feller could be rather short with folks, however, that was not my experience with meeting him. When I was in high school my grandparents took me on a trip to Cooperstown. We didn't realize it was induction weekend until we got there. I think it was 1990 but it might have been 1989, can't remember now.

We hit the museum and I managed to talk my way into a few card shops. Well, we walked into one small shop and who is in there but Rapid Rob himself signing autographs. My grandparents and I chatted with him for a few minutes. He was very nice. We are shirt tail relations to Dick Wakefield, and asked if he remembered him. He smiled and was like of course he remembered him.

My other grandma used to go down to Tucson every winter to snowbird for a few months. I was very close to her. She met Feller at some function and got his autograph for me. I had it in a scrapbook for a long time and recently reorganized my autographs into new binders. When I pulled the autograph out and looked at the back of it for the first time in probably 30 years, I discovered a note from my grandmother. She's been gone for a long time, so it was quite a moment to see her beautiful cursive writing for the first time in a long time.

[Angyale]

Whats rarer than a signed Feller item?

An unsigned one…..

Angyale

[butchie_t]

I have an autographed OAL ball signed by Bob Feller. I don't even know when or how I came across it. That is it!

Cheers,

[Rich Klein]

Originally Posted by 71buc

Sorry Jobu! Albert Belle was nicer to my 10 year old son than Rapid Robert was to Jobu.

The autograph chasers I knew back in the 1990's said that Mr. Belle was almost always unfailingly nice to autograph seekers, especially kids.

He did have anger management issues obviously but in terms of signing, he was almost always extremely graicious

Rich

[samosa4u]

Originally Posted by Jobu

A 10- or 11-year-old Jobu was at a show and didn't know that there was an autograph guest, let alone that it was Bob Feller. I see him walking through the lobby, recognize him, work up the courage to walk over and ask "Mr. Feller, can I please have your autograph?" He looks at me and deadpans "Yeah. Buy a ticket." And turns and walks away.

That's no way to talk to a Jobu!