Bert as a teen-ager 

Starting around 1951, when I began to collect old-timers (already in that category at that time) baseball players autographs  the first three I got were Dazzy Vance, Frank Frisch, and Ty Cobb  I corresponded quite a bit with Bert.  His handwriting and syntax led me to believe he was something like a middle-aged man.  Now I find that he was about 15 years old at at the time, only three years older than I.  I traded with him  got Wally Pipp from him, for example.  Maybe I was dealing with his dad, or even his grandfather.  James Ivey, Gainesville, Florida