Amy Franz, the Mariners fan behind the Ichi-Meter, received a sweet gift today — one of Ichiro’s bats, a pair of spikes, and a handwritten thank-you card. Despite the issues with punctuation and subject/verb agreement, it’s cool to see how our man writes, provided it wasn’t ghost-penned by an assistant and/or interpreter. I wonder what a handwriting analyst would say about it.

Seriously, this is a pretty cool gesture (and the “stay classy” headline isn’t meant to be sarcastic — I just couldn’t think of anything else). Read the story here.