In the early 1960's my mother took us to St Louis two years in a row to see the Cardinals play in old Sportsman Park. We stayed at the Chase Park Plaza Hotel where the visiting teams stayed. The first year was the Pirates. Got the autographs of most of them. Danny Murtaugh-manager, Robeto Clemente, Dick Groat, Vernon Law, Bill Mazeroski plus a lot of others. (Spelling not so good}
The next year was the Dodgers. Got Walt Alston-manager, Leo Durosha was a coach, Sandy Kofax, Don Drysdale, Maury Wills and more
Dizzy Dean and Pee Wee Reese were doing the game of the week and I got their autograph too. Dizzy talked to us a while when he found out we were from Mississippi. My sister told him I had "slud" into the bases. For you younger guys that was his word for slide or slid.