On February 11, 1994, the Milwaukee Brewers and Robin Yount held a press conference to announce his retirement from baseball. Murray Chass of The New York Times aptly called it the “end of a quiet but glamorous career.” Yount didn’t have much left to accomplish other than winning a World Series with his beloved Brewers,…
Robin Yount said on the leadup to his 3000th hit that it wasn’t going to be a big deal. The man who took more pride in his Milwaukee Brewers winning ballgames than personal stats found out he was wrong – the 3000 hit plateau was a huge deal. On September 9, 1992, a crowd of…
An old well-known expression is “April showers bring May flowers.” On May 1, 1975, the Milwaukee Brewers showered hits all over Milwaukee County Stadium in a 17-3 victory over the Detroit Tigers. Every Brewers starter reached base that day, but it was also one of the rare times that both Hank Aaron and Robin Yount…
The week in review: The Milwaukee Brewers were on the road for the final week of the 2016 season, starting with three games in Texas and then three games in Colorado. Milwaukee took the first game of the Texas series, 8-3, and then fell 6-4 and 8-5. They started off with a 4-1 loss to…
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. His career had come full circle as the home run king ended up in Milwaukee where he started out back in 1954 in a Braves uniform. …
Most of my Milwaukee Brewers content here has been either historical, such as the Hank Aaron’s final home run story. Or you’ll catch me trying to do my best in posting Brewers Week in Review. Once in a great while I’ll even do an old school player profile or have a story about meeting a player…
On Tuesday, July 20, 1976, Hank Aaron hit his 755th and final home run for the Milwaukee Brewers in a 6-2 win over the California Angels. It was mid-season, so most likely none of the 10,134 in attendance at Milwaukee County Stadium had any idea it was the last time Hammerin’ Hank would hit one…
As this year’s All-Star Break wraps up, I’d like to take a look back to the 1975 All-Star Game that was played at Milwaukee County Stadium. The 46th contest between the American and National Leagues happened on July 15, 1975. This was the first of two times in Milwaukee Brewers franchise history that the team…
