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Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress

Updates regarding my current project

Building the Brewers has been published!

Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee was published by McFarland & Company on October 31, 2019. Readers of the book will discover: The owners, teams, and ballparks behind decades of minor league baseball in Milwaukee and Seattle The rise and fall of the Milwaukee Braves, leading to…

November 10, 2019 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Interviewing Lary and Clayton Interviewing Me

The last couple weeks have been crazy for me – quite surreal, to put it mildly. First, Clayton Trutor from Down the Drive on SB Nation contacted me about the Brewers book.  We had a great conversation over topics ranging from the one thing I’d like readers to take away from the book to my…

April 19, 2019 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress, Milwaukee Brewers History.

Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee – Chapter Breakdown

When I submitted my book proposal to McFarland, one of the items was an Abstract.  It’s a fancy way to say outline/descriptive table of contents. My original Abstract had around 14 chapters and a larger scope for the book.  I wrapped up the book in 2004 when Bud Selig’s family sold the team to Mark…

April 1, 2019 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Follow-up: Ray Peters

If there’s one thing I can’t stress on this blog enough, it’s how fortunate I feel to have made some connections with ex-ballplayers in the past two years. Not everyone wants to talk, and some say the number of teams and games combined with the passage of time make their memories not so reliable.  I…

March 23, 2017 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress, Milwaukee Brewers History.

Milwaukee Brewers Research Interview: Pat McBride and Rick Napholz Part II

When I first started thinking I’d like to write a book about the Milwaukee Brewers franchise moving from Seattle in 1970, I kept coming back to a simple question: Who were the players, coaches, executives, and stadium workers?  Not just their names, but who were they personally and what did they experience when the Brewers…

February 9, 2017 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Research Interview – Bob Humphreys

Pitcher Bob Humphreys‘ input was extremely important as I started doing research for my Milwaukee Brewers historical book, so I decided to create a full-length profile for him right here on the blog. Humphreys was born in Covington, Virginia on August 18, 1935.  He loved baseball and basketball, playing both sports in high school and Hampden-Sydney…

January 5, 2017 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Research Interview – Lew Krausse

As I started doing research for my Milwaukee Brewers book, I was grateful that Lew Krausse from the original 1970 team took the time to answer some questions about his career. Lew Krausse was born on April 25, 1943 in Media, Pennsylvania.  His father Lew Sr. was a baseball pitcher and that certainly influenced the…

October 13, 2016 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Research – A Cup of Coffee with Ray Peters

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…

September 15, 2016 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Research Interview – John Morris

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…

September 8, 2016 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

Milwaukee Brewers Historical Book Specifics and My Writing Process

In this post I’d like to share with you some background on how I came to write my Milwaukee Brewers historical book and narrow the scope of what it’s about. I’ll also give some details about my writing process and how doing what I do helped me finish the first draft in a little over…

July 28, 2016 in Milwaukee Brewers Book in Progress.

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