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Posted By: Rob Dewolf

Frank,

You're being generous with the word conventions.

Growing up in Canton, Ohio, I started setting up at a small, monthly card show at the Nazir Grotto hall in the early '80s when I was in high school. Every month or so Rapid Robert would walk in with a briefcase, pay the $10 for a table, sit down and take out a stack of 8 x 10s and a sign that read:

Bob Feller
Hall of Famer
Autographs $5
(Photos $2)

He'd sit there for the entire three hours or so. Not much small talk (which was his right, of course) and even less good cheer.

Welcome to the big leagues, Mr. Hobbs.