According to the letter in this lot, Elvis started calling his paternal grandmother Minnae Mae Presley, her nickname 'Dodger' when he was about five years old. During a temper tantrum he threw a baseball which just missed her head, as she dodged out of the way, Elvis started calling her Dodger, a name for her which was soon picked up and used by everyone. Elvis was particularly fond of his grandmother and took her and his father Vernon with him and a couple of friends, Red West and Lamar Fike, when he was posted to Germany with the army in 1958. Minnie Mae was apparently devoted to Elvis and had been present at his birth on January 8th, 1935, ...a skinny, feisty, independent woman, she was married at seventeeen to the hard-drinking, philandering Jessie D. McClowell Presley... when he deserted her and subsequently remarried, Minnie Mae, then in her late fifties, moved in with her son, Vernon and daughter-in-law Gladys Love. When she went with her grandson to Germany she was fulfilling ...a death-bed promise to Gladys Presley, who had begged her always to stay with Elvis, no matter where he went...