James Van Horne is a Detroit area panhandler who has a large
following in Detroit.  Once homeless, t-shirt sales and generous
donations from his fans have provided him with an Detroit-area
apartment.  

He is kind and loves to talk baseball.  He's become such a fixture
of the Detroit event scene, that he's been featured in
The Detroit
News
, NPR, Fox 2 Detroit, The Toledo Free Press, ABCnews.com,
and
The Guardian (United Kingdom).  His three fan clubs on
Facebook all have over 300 members and he is also celebrated
with fan-created profiles on MySpace.

No Detroit event is complete without spotting the "Eat 'em up Man",
James Van Horne.