Comments on: Johnnie LeMaster

By: Brewer Bertram

Brewer Bertram — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 15:41:57 +0000

15. What would happen if you blended Jay Johnstone's "Temporary Insanity" and Dee Dee Ramone's "Lobotomy" what kind of interesting book would you have then?

By: KJC

KJC — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:45:15 +0000

14. 6 That's exactly what I thought, too! About the same build, too.

By: yamanin

yamanin — Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:54:05 +0000

13. LeMaster played with the Giants from 1975-1985, and compiled a career hitting record of .222/.277/.289. In May of 1985, they traded him to Cleveland, where he went 3-20 in 11 games before they shipped him off to Pittsburgh. This led cynical Giants fans to quip that it took the Giants 11 years to realize that Johnnie LeMaster wasn't a major league player, and it only took the Indians 11 games.

By: Champ Summers

Champ Summers — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 16:44:11 +0000

12. Great story, Josh. I especially liked how you incorporated the “BOO” tattoo in it. I can’t recall off-hand how much Chad Johnson was fined for the “Ocho Cinco” bit, but I’m pretty sure it was more than 500 “BONES”.

By: Basilisc

Basilisc — Sat, 02 Aug 2008 11:37:00 +0000

11. #9 –

Thanks for posting the cover of DOA. I’ve always been fascinated by that cover, because it shows the band wearing (as they often did) Phllies caps from the 1960s, which Greg’s mom had found while cleaning out her sister-in-law’s attic in Upper Darby, PA. The band loved the retro, anti-fashion symbolism of flaunting a logo that the club had discarded earlier in the decade, on its move to the Vet, in favor of a modernist, faux-psychedelic fat-P logo. The band’s caps were thus a subtle but unmistakeable “disco sucks” statement, something their fans recognized and appreciated.

Of course, in 1992 the team went back to the old P, bowing to the unhinged baseball nostalgia craze of that era. So, to a contemporary eye, the caps on the cover of DOA look bland, corporate, and unremarkable, completely negating their original anti-fashion, anti-conformist symbolism. As always, history had the last laugh on the Giant Prospects.

By: Josh Wilker

Josh Wilker — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:27:03 +0000

10. 9 : Beautiful. Thank you. That made my day.

By: PunkRockPaint

PunkRockPaint — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 22:15:41 +0000

9. The book is fantastic! I scanned a copy of the cover for fans of the band.

http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x156/tpeterson19/bookcover-DOA.jpg

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:11:34 +0000

8. I only scanned the story before my last post. I should have waited. I now see that Josh did indeed include the Johnny Disaster alias.

By: Joe Romano

Joe Romano — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 14:34:39 +0000

7. Was one of his nicknames "Johnny Disaster"? I seem to recall this, or at least I think I do.

By: bjoura

bjoura — Fri, 01 Aug 2008 03:33:22 +0000

6. I was thinking he looked like David Spade.