https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/page/4/?d=1enhttps://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/trevor-hoffman-reached-his-most-impressive-milestone-in-a-brewers-uniform-r2981/2981Wed, 22 Jan 2025 00:03:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/dave-parker-and-a-bad-real-estate-investment-saved-robin-younts-milwaukee-legacy-r2974/A former MVP helped keep a franchise icon in Milwaukee despite playing just one year with the Brewers. Nick Castellanos recently opined that Mets infielder Jose Iglesias deserved MVP votes over Shohei Ohtani due to his impact on the Mets’ dramatic turnaround. After all, where does value deri...2974Sun, 19 Jan 2025 12:57:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/inside-the-milwaukee-brewers-players-project-first-round-pitchers-that-didnt-pan-out-r2969/Every June, Major League Baseball teams make selections in the MLB Amateur Draft. Some of the players chosen are high schoolers, and others are college players. All teams delve into the history of the players, including prior injuries, and even study psychological reports to see if the player ca...2969Sat, 18 Jan 2025 19:11:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/inside-the-milwaukee-brewers-players-project-longhorn-stars-come-to-milwaukee-r2959/Over the last couple months, @Brock Beauchampand I have been working on adding players to the Milwaukee Brewers Players Project. Since Thanksgiving, we have added about 60 player bios to our collection. It is our goal to add 3-5 players every week, with the majority of them getting 400 words or...2959Thu, 16 Jan 2025 00:10:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/despite-having-only-one-hand-jim-abbott-was-a-pretty-darned-good-player-r2954/Jim Abbott played only one year in Milwaukee and didn’t have a great year, but all things considered, Abbott was successful during his 10-year major league career. In addition to his college career at the University of Michigan and his time with the 1988 USA Olympic baseball team, he had a celeb...2954Sat, 11 Jan 2025 15:58:00 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/2002-milwaukee-brewers-the-wurst-of-times-before-the-brewer-renaissance-r2944/Remember the scene in the movie ‘Major League’ when the Cleveland Indians fans were learning about the teams’ players before the season? The guy in the diner says, “Ricky Vaughn? Willie Hayes? Mitchell Friedman?” Then they cut to the construction guy who says, “Who are these bleeping guys?” That...2944Fri, 10 Jan 2025 17:12:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/inside-the-brewers-players-project-two-teds-and-a-fred-bring-baseball-back-to-milwaukee-r2941/Major League baseball returned to Milwaukee in 1970 as the Seattle Pilots became the Milwaukee Brewers. The team had two solid players, both named Ted. Second baseman Ted Kubiak and outfielder Ted Savage were good players on the first-year team. Another player was not that good, but he would pla...2941Wed, 08 Jan 2025 00:14:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/chase-anderson-was-a-key-part-of-the-brewers-staff-in-the-mid-teens-r2921/Chase Anderson wasn't as successful as his Texas high school contemporary Clayton Kershaw. Sure, both were named to the Texas 4A All-State First Team as seniors, but the comparison ends there. Kershaw has accumulated 212 wins through the 2024 season and has gathered some hardware as well: three...2921Sat, 04 Jan 2025 12:53:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/wait-these-guys-were-once-brewers-r2919/There are often times when we read a story or see a video of past Brewer teams. We often are surprised to find out that some famous (and not-so-famous) players spent a year or two with the club. Many, but not all, of these players were at the end of their careers - playing for one more chance to...2919Sun, 29 Dec 2024 16:19:01 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/the-2007-brewers-set-the-stage-for-future-success-after-25-years-of-futility-r2914/As the Milwaukee Brewers players trudged off the playing surface of Busch Stadium at 10:15pm on October 20, 1982, after a heart-breaking 6-3 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals in Game 7 of the World Series, fans probably never imagined that a Brewers team would not seriously challenge for a divisio...2914Sat, 28 Dec 2024 12:59:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/uecker-seats-gritty-brats-and-warm-bathrooms-r2891/A long time ago, in a galaxy very near—before many, if not all the writers of Brewer Fanatic were even born—the Milwaukee Brewers were created from a team that had previously been the Seattle Pilots. Long story short, on Mar. 31, 1970, the financially plagued Seattle Pilots were sold to Bud Seli...2891Thu, 26 Dec 2024 12:48:02 +0000https://brewerfanatic.com/milwaukee-brewers-news/history/we-three-short-kings-a-retrospective-on-the-brewers-best-tiny-talent-r2898/It may be easy to look over some of the smaller players in team history, but that doesn’t diminish their unique qualities. As someone who was once wrongfully accused of lying about being 5’6" when I should've said I was 5’5 ½", I know the pains of being on the shorter end of things. It’s har...2898Tue, 24 Dec 2024 12:50:02 +0000