I never set out to meet Bob Uecker. It wasn’t anything I pursued. To me, Uke was the voice of the Brewers. An actor. A writer. A comedian. He was THE MAN. The guy I wanted to be when I attended broadcasting school. It was an impossible dream. I wouldn’t get to walk in Uke’s…
When I was a kid I played Strat-o-Matic baseball. A lot. I mean, pretty much daily. For the uninitiated, the baseball version of this game started back in the 1960’s, but really took off about a decade later when “advanced” versions of the game were released. Each ballplayer has a stat type card with player…
The recent passing of MLB player, coach, manager, and all-around good guy Don Baylor made me recall when he spent a couple years as hitting coach of the Milwaukee Brewers. Let’s take a trip back to the late 1980’s and look at his time with the club. Baylor retired from baseball in 1988 after 19…
