Cheering Section: The Adventures of an Autograph Hunter

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Published 7/6/2008 by rstiles (noreply@blogger.com) at Stiles Points - "So let it be written, so let it be done"
... get John Challis to the game." ... Kevin Kernan Autograph collector Ray Robinson reviews his collection after 75 years... "Recently, as I looked over my 75-year-old scrapbook, its yellowed, crumbling pages fatigued by time passing, I realized that my collection revealed a singular cultural footnote: it seemed that most of the players, regardless of status in the game, signed with their nicknames, not their given names." ... Ray Robinson Ben Shpigel of The New York Times writes ...

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Published 7/8/2008 by Jay (noreply@blogger.com) at The Futility Infielder
... well as a host of several other sports books . Alex not only got to meet Robinson, an octogenarian who's luckily still very much alive, but to examine his pair of 75-year-old scrapbooks containing autographs and pictures -- cut out of newspapers, magazines and baseball cards -- of ballplayers of the 1920s and 1930s. At Bronx Banter yesterday he shared his account of their meeting while offering numerous photos of those unique mementos. Also included is a link to a recent New York Times piece written by Robinson about his volumes and his ...