Filed under: Baseball cards, Donruss, Meet the team, Pedro Cerrano | Tags: Baseball cards, Baseball movies, Cleveland Indians, Dennis Haysbert, Donruss, indians major league movie, Jobu, Major League, MLB, Pedro Cerrano
Once you got to know him, you’d find that Pedro Cerrano had some serious charisma.
In fact, I could see him running for office someday. (And, I swear that guy on the Keifer Sutherland show, 24, looks a lot like him. But, anyway…)
Sure, Cerrano’s voodoo freaked out some veterans in the clubhouse (well, at least Eddie Harris admitted that to me), but Jobu helped Cerrano with the curveball and that’s all that matters. Harris warmed up to Jobu, too, after a freak accident that first summer — so it all paid off in the end.
Believe it or not, Charlie Donovan considered sending Cerrano down to Triple-A early in his rookie season, but we decided we needed his bat in the lineup and then looked to move Vaughn. Good thing we got him some glasses and Cerrano finally pulled it around.
Cerrano’s sophomore season was another story … but Jake, Duke and Pep told me that Isuro “Kamikazi” Tanaka was a real help.
Something about marbles.
Maybe they’re a good stress-reliever? I’ll look into that.
Here’s another of those 1989 Donruss fantasy baseball cards courtesy of a big Major League fan, Chris Olds (now with Beckett Media), who created this card for the San Antonio Express-News sports section in 2005.
It’s my kinda card, Charlie. It’s my kinda card.
– Lou Brown, lbrown2009@gmail.com
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