On Thursday, June 27, 1993, the sausages graduated from an animated cartoon on County Stadium's old black-and-white scoreboards to a live costumed event. Back in those days, there were only three sausages; Italian, Polish and Bratwurst, who won that inaugural race. They were later joined by the Hot Dog and Chorizo.
Milwaukee baseball was chock-a-block with costumed mascots that year; a costumed Bernie Brewer had just started cheering on the Brew Crew from his new Chalet installed high above the bleachers.
But Bernie wasn't the first, either.
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That's skipper Charlie Grimm with a six-foot version of Owgust, the original Barrelman, way back in 1942.
I'd love to see him make a return to the ballpark, perhaps as a new incarnation of Bernie Brewer (the current mustachioed one has been that interesting to me). Can you imagine him going down the slide? Mascot logos are the best.
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