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"Calico Joe" by John Grisham is a work of fiction that falls under the genre of sports fiction or baseball fiction. It combines elements of sports, family dynamics, and redemption in its storytelling.
No. Joe Castle is a fictional first baseman who played for the Cubs in the novel Calico Joe by John Grisham. His character is based on Ray Chapman, the only MLB player killed by a pitch.
Calico Joe was created on 2012-04-10.
A real baseball player named Calico Joe.
No, he was a character out of John Grisham's book Calico Joe
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Joe Castle is the fictional title character in the book Calico Joe by John Grisham. In the novel, Joe Castle is a rookie player for the Chicago Cubs in 1973.
Calico Joe by John Grisham was released on April 10, 2012. It is a sports novel that tells the story of a baseball player whose career is cut short by a tragic event on the field.
Calico Joe's career is over, and he drifts home to Calico Rock, partially paralyzed, speech impeded, to work as a groundskeeper rather than earning a plaque in baseball's Hall of Fame. Source: Calico Joe
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The character is loosely based on ray chapman killed by a pitch.
Joe John was born in 1939.