Major League Baseball has always had a rich tradition of nicknames, such as "Gentleman Joe" Schepner.

Joe Schepner was born August 10, 1895, in Aliquippa, PA. In Aliquippa in 1916, New York Giants baseball manager John McGraw saw Joe play and sent him to the Albany Senators, where he played 120 games that year.

Joe spent nearly four years in the minor leagues, and, at age 24, arrived in the Major Leagues with the St. Louis Browns (nka the Baltimore Orioles) of the American League. It was on September 11, 1919, that Joe appeared in both games of a double header in Boston's Fenway Park, in the first game as a pinch hitter and in the second game as a replacement at third base.

That fall day in September 1919, Joe had the fortune of playing against one of the greatest American sports heroes: Babe Ruth, who played left field in both games for the Red Sox, going 3-3 in the first game and 0-3 in the nightcap.

On September 25, 1919, the St. Louis Browns defeated the Chicago White Sox, 3-1. Joe played third base and was 1-4. Playing for the White Sox that infamous day were several members of the "Eight Men Out" indicted for throwing the 1919 World Series: Shoeless Joe Jackson, Chick Gandil, Swede Risberg, Buck Weaver, and Lefty Williams. The rest of the "Eight Men Out" – Eddie Cicotte, Oscar "Happy" Felsch, and Fred McMullin – had the day off. All eight players were later banned from baseball for their involvement in the 1919 Black Sox scandal. Members of the White Sox who did not play that day were two MLB Hall of Famers: Eddie Collins and Urban Clarence "Red" Faber.

Joe played his final Major League game on the last day of the 1919 season, on September 28 against the Cleveland Indians in an 8-5 victory. Over his Major League career, Joe appeared in 14 games, batted in six runs, and had a .208 batting average in 48 at-bats.

Joe's minor league career, before and after his appearance in the Majors, included 17 seasons in the minors and 1,873 games. In his minor league career, Joe played for the Albany Senators / Reading Pretzels in 1916, the Rochester Hustlers in 1917, the New Orleans Pelicans in 1918, the Mobile Bears in 1919, the Louisville Colonels from 1920 to 1924, the Birmingham Barons from 1925 to 1927, the Albany Nuts in 1928, the Gadsden Eagles in 1928, the Knoxville Smokies in 1929, the Greenville Spinners in 1930, the Vicksburg Hill Billies from 1931 to 1932, and the Jackson Mississippians in 1932. Joe had a lifetime batting average of .283 in the minors.

Joseph "Joe" Maurice Schepner died July 25, 1959, at age 63, in Mobile, AL..