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Sometimes nostalgic, sometimes tinged with disappointment, often humorous and insightful, these stories take Tribe fans back to an age before multi-million dollar superstars, when players were in it for the love of the game …

From the mid-1950s through the mid-1990s, various owners of the Cleveland Indians (including, at one time, a dead man) fielded team after team that just couldn’t win. Those forty long years, before the opening of Jacobs Field and the “era of champions,” are remembered by many as the “bad old days.”

Yet those lousy teams had their share of likeable and colorful young men who earned a spot in fans’ hearts, if not the Hall of Fame. Guys like . . .

“Super Joe” Charboneau, whose Rookie of the Year season inspired a nickname, a book, and a theme song, but whose career flamed out fast.