Some athletes do take awhile to get around to fulfilling fans' autograph requests through the mail. It's not unusual to wait months--even a year--for that favorite photo or baseball card to be returned.
But this fall, one man who sent Don Carman a card to be autographed back as a boy back in 1991, made news in Philadelphia by reporting its safe return in 2006. The same thing happened to another guy--who's put his experience and his conversation with Carman--in a story on Slate.com. Turns out over 200 fan letters wound up in a forgotten box in Carman's garage. He and his young son took time to respond to all of them.
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