Secretarial signatures on business letters may have always happened as in the above. I have seen ones of Heilbroner, etc. As to when they started for autograph requests I am not sure. It is interesting when my son batboyed in the AZ fall league maybe 10 years ago a not very top prospect asked my son to sigh all his mail (he didn't). I also have a patient who was an NHL star. When ever he would come in I would give him a handful of cards to sign. Once when his wife came along- she grabbed them and started to sign them.
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