Whatever Happened to Super Joe?: Catching Up with 45 Good Old Guys from the Bad Old Days of the Cleveland Indians - Schneider, Russell
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Remember "Super Joe" Charboneau? Many Indians fans do, even though his flash-in-the-pan career with the Tribe flamed out quickly. (Maybe it's because the onetime Rookie of the Year could open beer bottles with his eye socket and drink through his nose.) This book catches up with him more than forty former Cleveland Indians players of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s who also won a place in fans hearts even though their careers didn't lead them to the Hall of Fame. Veteran sportswriter Russ Schneider tracked down these former Tribe journeymen and got them to reminisce about their Cleveland days and…mehr

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Remember "Super Joe" Charboneau? Many Indians fans do, even though his flash-in-the-pan career with the Tribe flamed out quickly. (Maybe it's because the onetime Rookie of the Year could open beer bottles with his eye socket and drink through his nose.) This book catches up with him more than forty former Cleveland Indians players of the 1960s, '70s, and '80s who also won a place in fans hearts even though their careers didn't lead them to the Hall of Fame. Veteran sportswriter Russ Schneider tracked down these former Tribe journeymen and got them to reminisce about their Cleveland days and what became of them since. The Indians teams of those years were terrible. But many of the players were loveable--or at least memorable. Like "Dirty Kurt" Bevacqua, so named because of his uniform, not his style of play. Harold ?Gomer? Hodge had a southern drawl that wooed Tribe fans and claimed to have a 4.000 batting average. At 165 lbs ?Scrappy? Jack Brohamer earned his name not only for his size