Outfielder Robert (Bob) Collucio is among 626 former players not receiving adequate pensions due to an agreement between MLB and the players’ association. Players between 1947 – 1979 needed to accrue four years of service credit. Collucio was born in Centralia, Washington on October 2, 1951. He started playing organized ball when he was 5…
“Perhaps the best thing (Bud) Selig could do to improve things is get rid of General Manager Jim Baumer and Manager Alex Grammas.” – columnist Dennis Punzel, November 4, 1977. The blog post here previously has been published as content in my Milwaukee Brewers historical book. For this reason the post has been taken down.…
Righty pitcher Lary Sorensen was born on October 4, 1955, in Detroit, Michigan. He was named for pitcher Frank Lary, hence the spelling of his first name. Sorensen grew up in Michigan and stayed there to attend college at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor. The Milwaukee Brewers drafted him in the 8th round of…
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…
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…
The blog post here previously has been published as content in my Milwaukee Brewers historical book. For this reason the post has been taken down. This page remains in place so links posted to here on various social media sites remain active. Order Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball…
This week in 2007 the 3-game series between the Cleveland Indians and Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim, scheduled to be played at Jacobs Field April 10-12, was moved to Miller Park. The Indians had already started the season on the road against the Chicago White Sox, winning 2 of 3 games. When they came home to…
The blog post here previously has been published as content in my Milwaukee Brewers historical book. For this reason the post has been taken down. This page remains in place so links posted to here on various social media sites remain active. Order Building the Brewers: Bud Selig and the Return of Major League Baseball…
David Stearns is the ninth General Manager of the Milwaukee Brewers. Ask any hardcore Brewers fan to name the other eight GM’s and most will say Doug Melvin, Harry Dalton, Sal Bando, and perhaps even Dean Taylor. But from 1970-77, the team went through four GM’s in pretty rapid fire: Marvin Milkes, Frank Lane, Jim…
