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DJThat was a neat story. I also spent a great deal of time writing to athletes as a child and even into my twenties. My longest was Glen Hubbard. It took six years for some reason. The first one I ever got back was Sandy Koufax and that got the ball rolling to continue writing to everyone under the sun and in the late 1970's, my rate of success was around 90% and even befriended many athletes who wasn't used to getting much mail.
DJ