Name a random Brewer

How about.............Willie Mueller?

Had to go deep…and to the end of the years I collected…80 Topps:

He was the local kid that was going to to be the bullpen messiah. He had about a 15 inning career.

I know he was never a Brewer but how about a Jim Bouton 1969 Pilot card?

Quick look seems to indicate he may not have been on a MLB roster when pictures would have been taken for the ‘69 season. I have all the Pilots cards and he’s not on them.

Fun fact:1970 Topps cards were issued before the last minute move to Milwaukee, so all cards issued say “Pilots”

@Blair Kiel posted:

We used to giggle as kids:

I think Gene hailed from Blue Earth, WI, if I'm not mistaken.

Derek Turnbow. The guy would begin the Brewers' era of relievers, who you could count on to relinquish a lead, in any game. That continued through Jeromy Jeffress. Sitting on needles and pins whenever they came into a game "to close it out."

@mrtundra posted:

I think Gene hailed from Blue Earth, WI, if I'm not mistaken.

Not Blue Earth, but Black Earth.   About 30 miles west of Madison.   World class trout stream, Black Earth Creek run through there.

@ammo posted:

Not Blue Earth, but Black Earth.   About 30 miles west of Madison.   World class trout stream, Black Earth Creek run through there.

Thanks, Ammo!

@mrtundra posted:

Derek Turnbow. The guy would begin the Brewers' era of relievers, who you could count on to relinquish a lead, in any game. That continued through Jeromy Jeffress. Sitting on needles and pins whenever they came into a game "to close it out."

There was nothing worse than watching Pete Ladd try to close out the Cardinals in the 82 series.

Turnbow is in competition with Casey McGehee for greatest one year wonder. 

I was always surprised Turnbow wasn't called for more balks

Chuck Crim

Jim Slaton. Traded him for Beb Oglivie and then resigned at the end of that season to a 5 year contract.. Not a bad trade. LOL.

@Blair Kiel posted:

Mrs. Kiel worked at the PGA Tour with his son and I gave him a couple of his Dad’s cards.

I remember going to game with my parents in 1976 the summer I turned 7. We'd take one night off from milking cows and doing chores every year and have a neighbor milk for us. We'd head to Milwaukee for a Brewer game. I was excited to see Hank Aaron play. I was young, but I had already started listening to Brewer games and had heard all about him coming back to Milwaukee.

Then, we got to County Stadium and Hegan played in place of Aaron since the Brewers team was facing a right hander. Then, Hank didn't even pinch hit.

I was mad at Mike Hegan the rest of that summer.

My dad grew up a rabid Braves fan and he and my uncle took me to one of Hank Aaron's last games in Milwaukee.  I was about 9 years old and really hadn't followed baseball yet and I asked him who Hank Aaron was.  My Dad and uncle looked at me like I had 3 heads.  I was actually more blown away that I was watching a baseball game that the field was green and not in black and white.

My dad took us  only 1 or 2 times a year because we lived a couple hours from Milwaukee. There were scheduled doubleheaders back then so the move was to go on those dates. I never saw Aaron hit a HR but ironically I saw a game where his brother Tommie went in as a PR for Adcock and a couple innings later hit a walk off grand slam.

@PackerRick posted:

Jim Slaton. Traded him for Beb Oglivie and then resigned at the end of that season to a 5 year contract.. Not a bad trade. LOL.

Oglivie was a very underrated player. He did make 3 all-star teams. He had that 4-5 year stretch where he was a Darryl Strawberry type. He had that same type of looping left-handed swing. He was also a clutch hitter. He hit home runs in both Game 5 (the final game of the ALCS) and Game 7 of the World Series in 1982.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxh1hWM0b0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghxh1hWM0b0

The fact that the 1982 team didn't finish off by winning it all is probably the biggest Wisconsin sports disappointment of my lifetime. Everything came together perfectly. Yount and Molitor were coming into their primes. Cooper, Thomas, and Oglivie were all in the 4-5 stretches were they were legit all-star level guys. Vuckovich was healthy. Caldwell was just at the end of his peak. If Rollie Fingers doesn't get hurt, it's a different story, but history would look at that team completely differently had they won it. They just couldn't touch Bruce Sutter, and the Brewers didn't have Fingers to match him. I remember that 8th inning in 1982 when the Brewers were down 1 with Molitor, Yount, and Cooper coming up. I was so sure that the Brewers were going to score. It didn't happen.

https://baseballhall.org/disco...me-7-of-world-series

Just think how good that team would have been in the late 70s early 80s if Larry Hisle hadn't blown out his shoulder. I think in Oglivie the Brewers got a more complete player than even they realized when they made the trade.

Bambi's Bombers and Harvey's Wallbangers! 

I was a little league catcher, and got Ellie's autograph one day at the park before a game. His autograph was on my catcher's mitt...not the one on the picture you see here.

@PackerRick posted:

My dad took us  only 1 or 2 times a year because we lived a couple hours from Milwaukee. There were scheduled doubleheaders back then so the move was to go on those dates. I never saw Aaron hit a HR but ironically I saw a game where his brother Tommie went in as a PR for Adcock and a couple innings later hit a walk off grand slam.

We circled the “Twi-night double headers” whenever the schedule came out. First game would start at 6:00.

The bargain days of baseball for the family are long gone. Too bad.

I got to go to games a reward for perfect attendance at school once a year (no point in staying home sick, dad would still make you clean calf pens). 

Went to way more games as a young adult.  The last 20 games I have been to have all been minor league games.   

@"We"-Ka-Bong posted:

I got to go to games a reward for perfect attendance at school once a year (no point in staying home sick, dad would still make you clean calf pens).

Parents had a special ability to motivate their children. LOL. Kind of like the lesser of two evils.

in the waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay  back time machine, my oldest sister was moving to Chicago in the summer of 1969,  so I got to see alot of the Cubs that summer and one of the greatest meltdowns in baseball history. u could get seats in the outfield bleachers for 1 dollar.

Ernest “Ernie” Riles.

Came in 3rd place for AL Rookie of the year in 1985 as an infielder.  Didn’t do much after that.

Jamie Navarro.  

I never met Jamie but I played whiffle ball with his 5 year old son Jamie Navarro Jr.  His kid is probably 27 or 28 now and I assume he didn’t make it into the majors like his dad.

Or his grandfather julio navarro

With baseball’s new rules and games only being 2 1/2 hours long, I expect they will cut ticket prices. Why pay full amount if your only getting 2/3 of the product?

*sarcasm

** In one post, I used two fractions. That’s a ratio of 1:2.

@MichiganPacker posted:

The fact that the 1982 team didn't finish off by winning it all is probably the biggest Wisconsin sports disappointment of my lifetime. Everything came together perfectly. Yount and Molitor were coming into their primes. Cooper, Thomas, and Oglivie were all in the 4-5 stretches were they were legit all-star level guys. Vuckovich was healthy. Caldwell was just at the end of his peak. If Rollie Fingers doesn't get hurt, it's a different story, but history would look at that team completely differently had they won it. They just couldn't touch Bruce Sutter, and the Brewers didn't have Fingers to match him. I remember that 8th inning in 1982 when the Brewers were down 1 with Molitor, Yount, and Cooper coming up. I was so sure that the Brewers were going to score. It didn't happen.

I can still remember that game so vividly watching it with my dad.    Like you we were so sure with those 3 hitters coming up they would score with no issues at all.  We were so disappointed but like all Brewers fans then we were so confident they would get back.

That 1982 team was a great team. I still recall them pounding the Angels in that deciding game at County Stadium to get the World Series shot.

I don't remember the Brewers pounding them in game 5. I can vividly remember Carew hitting a sharp one hopper to short with the tying run on 2B to end the game.

@YATittle posted:

That 1982 team was a great team.

Tell me more, did they get very far?

Terry Francona

Francona's father played for the Brewers. They both ended their careers with the Brewers.

Rick Manning.  He knocked in the winning run in the bottom of the 9th inning (I believe it was the 9th inning) back in 1987 with Paul Molitor on deck, thus stopping Molitor's 39 game hitting streak.

And he engineered to get traded for Gorman Thomas.

Bastard.

And he stole Dennis Eckersley's wife!

Did not know that!

Jim Tatum

Ed Romero