OT: A Touching Story About Requesting Autographs By Mail

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Posted By: howard

When I was very young in 1978 I went to a Yankees/Royals game at the Stadium and after the game my friends and I went autograph seeking in and outside of the Yankees parking lot (back then it was pretty easy to sneak in the lot through the chain link fence). I had a Yankees yearbook and had already got the signatures of Mickey Rivers, Ron Guidry, Reggie and some lesser players when one of my friends pointed out Ed Figueroa. We approached him but I was not convinced it was Ed. Anyway the guy grabbed my yearbook and signed it. It turned out to be Buck Martinez and he signed right across Rivers' name. I was so pissed when I got home that my mother bought me a new yearbook and had me send it to the Yankees complete with an explanatory letter and an SASE. The article posted here gives me renewed hope that one day my yearbook will be returned to me.