bert as a teen ager starting around 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 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