Phil,
Yes, that story was in The Glory of Their Times. I always think of that whenever I ponder the near-total lack of Raymond signatures. It also reminds me of the story that a former teammate of King Kelly recounted decades after the fact. He said that neighborhood kids would flock around Kelly wherever he went, pestering him for autographs. I'm of the opinion that either this teammate's mind was playing tricks on him or the writer/interviewer took creative liberty and added the autograph part into the story. People simply weren't collecting players' autographs on a grandiose level until the 1920's. Judging by collector-obtained material that still survives, it seems as though the hobby was not born until the first decade of the last century.
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