Autograph request through the mail received: Andy Dirks

Andy Dirks c/o Detroit Tigers - he was having a breakout year in 2012, so I sent an autograph request towards the end of that season.

In March 2013, the Detroit Tigers returned one of my two cards my unsigned with a form letter in their own envelope - my SASE and my other card were not returned.

I haven't counted on getting through the mail requests back for at least several years but I saw one of my SASEs after checking my mailbox on Aug. 10 - I wondered who responded to me and inside the envelope was a signed card from Dirks, which surprised me since I'd counted him off as an apparent failure.