If you were a teenager in the ’50s, you probably had an autograph book. It was a 4-by-6-inch leather booklet, the cover reading “Autographs” printed in gold, with blank pages inside. In this booklet, ...

I don’t remember how many times I have asked that question. No one has ever said, “No.” The result is a small booklet that is a storehouse full of memories. Many names in my autograph book were ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The American actor, Alec Baldwin, once said nobody cares about autographs anymore because there are now cameras everywhere. He is wrong; ...

"Spring is here again, tender age in bloom, bruises on the fruit, but knows not what it means." —Kurt Cobain Kurt Cobain has always been an artistic inspiration to me. Also a fashion inspiration, ...

In 1964, two clever Beatles fans in Kentucky wrote to the maitre d' of the Deauville Hotel in Miami Beach, Fla., asking, "If you happen to find any Beatles autographs lying around, would you mind ...

The passing of Bill Russell brought back a rush of memories of my attempt to obtain the basketball icon’s autograph in a place where few die-hard New York Knicks fans would have dared to enter. But I ...

In my Dec. 6 column on the Sarasota of my youth (1958: Was Sarasota better, or just different?"), I mentioned a visit by the New York Yankees to Payne Park in the spring of 1962 to play the Chicago ...