It sure does. In "Wait Til Next Year" the historian Doris Kearns Goodwin wrote a charming memoir about her childhood as a fan of "da bums," the Brooklyn Dodgers. In one part she describes asking Jackie Robinson to sign her autograph book. She hands it to him and first he leafs through it, reading all the inscriptions written by other children. You know the ones:

2 Good
+2 B
_______
4 gotten,

and the like He starts chuckling, signs it and gives it back to her. He wrote,

"May your smile
last a long while.
Jackie Robinson"