26 years to get my Lolich card signed

skigropple

When I was in H.S.(part of sports lit class 1979) I sent a letter to Mickey Lolich with questions to answer and a card to sign. I received a letter back from his wife with answers to my questions and telling me to try sending the card back in the fall when he would be back from San Diego. Well last night i went to the local class A game two miles from my house because they had the some 1968 Tigers on hand for a promo. The line was huge but after 26 years I got Mickey to sign a card and the letter his wife sent me. He went on about why was his wife writing letters to a kid and Bill Freehan was getting in on it too. He read the entire letter and was very funny about it. I had time to get Freehan's, Willie Horton and John Hillers auto and Mickey was still talking about how did I get her to write me when she never wrote him. All four of the players stayed until the line was done, at least double the hour scheduled. I go to about 10 games a year and stopped going the MLB games because my kids(and me) like the local and up close feel at the park.

Just thought I would share because you would not believe the the diverse range of people waiting for the player autos. baseball is alive and well in the minors, my local team the West Michigan Whitecaps draws 400,000+ a season for the last ten years.

Jim

Axtell

Great story...awesome that you not only got the card signed, but had the letter all that time too.

Lothar52

in the movie 61 maris talks about writing back the kids even though he was getting hate mail....that would be great if those people saved those letters he wrote....if indeed he wrote them like the movie says.

loth