"Making it to the big leagues was the highlight for me. Baseball was good back then. It was relatively a job. You played for the love of the game and you didn't make a lot of money. There were fewer teams and better pitching. It was harder to make it. It was a pure game. You could still borrow money all the time. I was the one doing the borrowing. We were that intimate. That close. I can't imagine guys doing that now. That's how we hung out. We were making $125 bucks a game. It puts things in perspective. I used to borrow money from Len Barker; 20 bucks all the time. I saw him recently and he said that he claimed me on his income tax return." - Joe Charboneau on CBS SportsLine (Allyson Turner, 'Then & Now', Source)