She came with Joe Thome, an aptly named-fan who quickly produced his driver's license to prove it. They're not related. But Jim Thome has been a part of Joe Thome's life for a long time, all the way back to Thome's early days with the Indians when the baseball world began to take notice of this burg
"Sitting in the back corner, a nervous, shy kid. I say my name correctly as 'Thome,' and then everyone turns around and looks, all of the baseball fans," Joe Thome said. "And then we all became friends."
