From Espn.com
Charlie Keeler was leafing through a chest of drawers that belonged to his late father recently when he came across a trove of baseball memorabilia. The photos and programs that his dad, William, saved made his eyes grow wide, but not as wide as what he found laying beneath them.
His father was the nephew of "Wee" Willie Keeler, and on the bottom of the drawer lay dozens of letters that Keeler wrote in the summer of 1892, when he was barnstorming through the Northeast, beginning a journey that would end with him being enshrined in the Hall of Fame as one of the founders of modern baseball.
Check out the article and pdf versions of the letters of the novice kid on the road for the first time, which was the beginning of his hall of fame career.
Willie Keeler Website
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