Not surprisingly, the top 5 most visited posts of 2018 on my site have Milwaukee Brewers content. Here they are from #5 to #1, with a little background on each: #5 – Gaylord Perry’s 15 Inning Marathon In the course of doing research for my Milwaukee Brewers historical book, I stumbled on a box score…
Milwaukee Brewers Historical Book News: In March I received peer and editor feedback on my manuscript. I had a few typos and spelling errors I could have kicked myself over, but the biggest blunder on my part came in the second half of the manuscript. I went in a completely different direction and started recapping…
This Craig Counsell kid has a trophy too! (with outfielder Dion James) Milwaukee Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers spent the first two months of the 1981 offseason adding hardware to his trophy case. First, he won the Cy Young Award as the American League’s top pitcher, and then he took home honors as the league’s Most…
It was a deal destined to probably never happen, but for a short time in the fall of 1973 the Chicago Cubs inquired about acquiring highly touted catching prospect Darrell Porter from the Milwaukee Brewers. They had been shopping around 14-year veteran Ron Santo and had him on the table for Porter. It’s…
This upcoming Monday brings another birthday for yours truly, and another potential trip around the sun. Some years ago on the eve of my 18th birthday, I wrote the following rather bleak piece on where I was in life. Last year I wrote a reply to that young punk from “Future Me” to offer a current perspective:…
July 9, 2003, was a dark day in Milwaukee’s racing sausage history. First baseman Randall Simon of the Pittsburgh Pirates reached out over the dugout railing and knocked the Italian sausage with a bat near the top of the head. The racing sausages had been a part of Milwaukee Brewers games since starting off as…
Lefty Ron Guidry had a 1978 season that pitchers dream about – and will probably never be duplicated. Guidry went 25-3, in a season that is among the top 10 for winning percentage in baseball history. Some of his incredible stats include: Leading the league with a sparkling 1.74 ERA, 25 wins, a .893 winning…
