He just didn’t think he’d have to wait until he was 27 for one of them to arrive.
More than 15 years ago, the adolescent carefully tucked Kevin Appiers’ 1992 Kansas City Royals baseball card inside a clear plastic protector and wrote an earnest note asking the righthanded hurler to sign the card and return it to him.
Last week, Roth’s dad, still living at Mark’s childhood address in Brooklyn, phoned his grown son with a strange question.NOW WOW! Mark Roth just got back the card he sent to Kevin Appier in 1995.
“He asked if I’d been sending out the baseball cards again,” Roth recalled. He replied that he hadn’t done so for 15 years.
The Appier baseball card, freshly autographed, had finally arrived.
Roth was thrilled to receive the belated response, but continues to wonder, why now?
Appier, now retired to his cattle ranch in Paola, Kan., did not return The Post’s calls for comment.
“He’s a very private person,” his sister, Jeri, told The Post.
After a little investigation of her own, she explained that her brother never forgot about the fan mail.
“There was some stuff that the Royals had sent to his house that had been sitting around,” she said.
