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. My book Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee is available to be ordered on the McFarland website. For this reason the…
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 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…
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…
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…
Chris Zantow 