Hank Aaron played his final major league baseball game on Sunday, October 3, 1976. At age 42 and after 23 years of baseball, Aaron held 11 major league records. His career had come full circle as the home run king ended up in Milwaukee where he started out back in 1954 in a Braves uniform. …
The week in review: The Milwaukee Brewers were at home this past week to face the Pittsburgh Pirates and Cincinnati Reds. The Pirates went to work with wins by scores of 6-3 and 4-1. The Crew salvaged the series with a 3-1 win, and then took game one of the Reds series by a score…
The last pitcher to win 20 games in a season for the Milwaukee Brewers was left-hander Teddy Higuera back in 1986. His 20th and final win came on September 25th that year. Only two other pitchers have won 20 or more games in a season for the Brew Crew, and both came prior to Higuera’s fantastic…
The week in review: The Milwaukee Brewers kicked off last week with a three game series in Cincinnati. They dropped the first two games by scores of 3-0 and 6-4, but rebounded with a convincing 7-0 win. Next up was Chicago with the Cubs on the threshold of clinching the NL Central division title. Milwaukee…
The baseball definition for a “Cup of Coffee” is a short time spent by a minor leaguer at the major league level. One way a player can get a cup of coffee is via the September call-up when teams are allowed to expand their rosters from 25 players to 40. Many players joining teams during…
The week in review: The Milwaukee Brewers kicked off last week with a big 12-5 win over the Chicago Cubs at home, and followed that with a 2-1 win to take the series. They moved on to St. Louis and again won big by a 12-5 score. The four game series was ultimately split. After…
Left-handed pitcher John Morris was born on August 23, 1941 in Lewes, Delaware. He played baseball as he grew up and was signed by the Philadelphia Phillies shortly after high school, in 1960 as an amateur free agent. Morris spent the next few years toiling away in the Phillies minor league system, and made his…
The week in review: The Milwaukee Brewers kicked off last week with two losses to the St. Louis Cardinals followed by a 3-1 in the finale of that series. They went on a short weekend three game road trip to Pittsburgh and swept the Pirates. On Labor Day they welcomed the Chicago Cubs to Miller…
I like to call my early stories “little kid writing.” Ahhhh…those were the days. I had yet to discover quotation marks so of course any conversations weren’t set off from the actual story. This particular story ends pretty abruptly, and as far as I can can tell it was due to me running out of…
