Updates regarding my current project
Hello everyone! Just a quick note on where I’m at with the Milwaukee Brewers book. I just finished reading through the entire manuscript on paper and made edits in the margins. I feel more connected to what I’ve written when I edit on paper. Next I’ll take those edits and make corrections on the electronic…
I just signed a publishing contract with McFarland & Company to publish my Milwaukee Brewers historical book! What does this mean? I need to deliver a draft of the manuscript by END OF AUGUST! Yes, this coming August. The manuscript has been completed for some time, but I will be taking another pass through to do…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
