Get Yer Tickets Here!

On Friday, April 26th, 1935, the Milwaukee Journal printed this photo of fans outside Borchert Field:

Arrive at Brewer Park Early for 1935 Season Opener

Some 8,000 fans were on hand to watch the Brewers and Kansas City Blues open the 1935 baseball season at Borchert field Friday afternoon. This crowd gathered before the ticket box office long before the start of the game.

Love the cars.

This is an unusual look at the ballpark. This picture appears to be looking southwest towards the corner of 8th Street and Chambers, looking down from the ballpark's roof.

Perhaps most notable in this photo are the exterior ticket kiosks, a feature of the ballpark dating back to the 19th century. This view of Athletic Park (as the Orchard was then known) was published in the Milwaukee Sentinel on May 8, 1892:

That's 8th and Chambers again, this time kitty-corner, looking northeast back towards the park (the streetcar is on Chambers, and home plate is behind the large tower).

The line art seems to be accurate - there's our kiosk, proudly selling tickets to the Brewers. That Milwaukee Brewers club was the Cream City's short-lived entry in the Western League.

This colorized postcard of a Sumner W. Matteson photograph shows how the 8th & Chambers ticket kiosk looked in 1909.

By this point, the ballpark itself is considerably less ornate, having lost its towers.

The visual evolution would continue; sometime after 1935, the distinctive ticket kiosks would be replaced by something larger, more boxy and utilitarian. This photograph was taken on the last opening day at Borchert Field, April 16, 1952:

The Journal picture was likely taken from the roof, right around the letters.

For seventy years, there was one place to go for the best tickets in town.

The Orchard's Autograph Hounds

The National League's Brewers have their "Autograph Saturdays," but the Orchard had autograph-seekers all its own.

Autograph Hounds Hound Brewers as They Make Their Home Debut

AUTOGRAPH seekers were out in full force at Borchert field Saturday when the Milwaukee Brewers finally opened their American association home season. This was the scene before the start of the baseball game, with Catcher Rush Hankins affixing an autograph while pitchers Buck Marrow and Calvin Dorsett reach for scorecards to be autographed.

The players are standing along the right field line, where the bleachers fell away to the outfield.

What I wouldn't give for one of those signed scorecards today.

1940s Flannel on eBay

This gorgeous 1940s Brewers road flannel recently sold for $510 on eBay. It provides us with a great look at the colors of Milwaukee baseball history.

This uniform style dates back at least as far as 1939, as seen in this picture of player/manager Minor "Mickey" Heath in his road grays (the sleeve patch helps establish the date).

This blue-and-red combination would see service throughout Bill Veeck's tenure as owner. Veeck would introduce new uniforms in 1942, featuring an elegant script "Brewers" across the front, but kept the old block "M" jerseys as an alternate.

The reverse features a simple block number.

One difference you might notice between this jersey and those worn by Heath and the others is the auction jersey's lack of sleeve stripes. This is not uncommon in jerseys from that period, as sleeves were often shortened by players looking for additional freedom of movement—note how much longer the original sleeves are. The auction pictures seem to indicate a fairly rough crop:

And boy, has this jersey been through the wars. Stains, tears and moth holes dot the fabric throughout.

There's that distinctive thick blue piping again.

Not all the damage is of recent vintage; the jersey shows evidence of team repairs.

Again, this is not uncommon in jerseys that would be passed from player to player over several years.

Another interesting feature is the double-tagging. The first tag is from the manufacturer, Wilson.

The second tag is from Burghardt Athletic Goods of Milwaukee, who supplied the jerseys to the Brewers. They're still in business today (and in the 1980s, I bought my high school letter jacket from their store on Capital Drive).

A fantastic relic of Milwaukee baseball history.

If you're the lucky owner of this jersey, drop me a line. I'd love to talk to you about your new acquisition.

A Half-Pound Shy

By Pete Ehrmann

Eighty-one years ago today, Borchert Field came within seven hours and eight ounces of hosting a world championship boxing match.

And no, I don't mean eight minutes.

Thanks to that measly extra half-a-pound registered when Eddie Anderson weighed in for his fight with Benny Bass at 3 p.m. on June 10, 1930, what was supposed to be a 10-round contest for the latter's world junior lightweight title that evening was downgraded to non-title status.

The junior lightweight division was created in 1921 for fighters who would've needed to cut off a limb to make the 126-pound featherweight limit or grow an extra one to be a bona-fide 135-pound lightweight.

Benny Bass—called the "Little Fish," of course—was a hard-punching Philadelphian who'd won the 130-pound belt by knocking out Tod Morgan on December 20, 1929. He'd successfully defended it twice since then, in addition to fighting a couple non-title matches.

Benny Bass
(Author's collection)

One of the latter, on February 22, 1930, had 4,000 fans at the Milwaukee Auditorium in a state of full-blown hysteria as Bass and the same Eddie Anderson fought 10 wild rounds in which there were nine knockdowns—seven scored by Bass, two by Anderson.

Referee Freddie Andrews' verdict of a draw made a rematch inevitable, and on May 23 promoter Tom Andrews announced that Bass's world title would be up for grabs when they fought again on June 10 at Borchert Field.

The Milwaukee newspapers all insisted that it would be the first ever world championship fight in Wisconsin, but that must've come from the overheated PR mill of promoter Andrews, who as the world's most renowned boxing record keeper surely knew that on June 4, 1908, Milwaukee was the site of the Stanley Ketchel-Billy Papke world middleweight title fight.

In any case, it was definitely the first championship fight for Cowboy Eddie Anderson—he was from Wyoming—in a long decade of plugging away in the ring that started when he was 16 and weighed barely more than a hundred pounds.

Eddie Anderson
(Author's collection)

Ten days before the Borchert Field championship match, Anderson was a solid 140. So after he arrived in town on June 5, in addition to his boxing workouts at Tommy Neary's south side gym, the Cowboy ran up to 10 miles at the lakefront every morning.

"This will be the first time in two years that I boxed at 130," he told Jim Delany of the Wisconsin News. " I was down to 131 once, and the effort didn't seem to harm me any, so I guess I won't have any trouble with 130."

Bass also trained at Neary's, and in the final days before the fight up to 400 fans squeezed into the gym to watch the champion and challenger work out. That and ticket orders coming in from all parts of the state had Tom Andrews dreaming of topping the local attendance record for a boxing match of 7,916, set 16 years earlier at the Willie Ritchie-Ad Wolgast lightweight fight at the Auditorium.

Andrews had the ballpark set up to accommodate 18,000 customers. The newspaper guys figured on maybe 12,000, tops, but that would still be one for the record books plus a boon to the Milwaukee Jewish Orphanage on N. 21st St. and W. McKinley Ave., which was down for a cut of the proceeds.

The day before the fight, the Little Fish predicted he would whale the stuffing out of Anderson within five rounds.

"I'm not going to waste any time on him," Bass said. "He'll be blinking before the first round is over, and if we get as far as the fifth he'll think he's on a carousel."

The beatings the champ dished out to his sparring partners at Neary's made him a 3-1 favorite to back up his bold talk; but Anderson, who'd been knocked down before but never out, invited Ed Dunn of the Milwaukee Sentinel to "Tell all your friends who like Bass to stop me to come over to the Schroeder hotel and I'll cover their money. No one is knocking Eddie Anderson out."

That he still weighed one-and-a-half pounds over the junior lightweight limit on June 9 didn't bother the Cowboy, either. "I am surprised at how easy I am making this weight," he told Dunn. "I feel as strong as I do weighing 135, and you can take it from me that after the fight there will be no alibing about the weight hurting me."


So all the stars seemed aligned for the greatest night in local boxing history—until the afternoon of the fight when Cowboy Eddie found himself a maddening half-pound over 130 (to Bass's 128½ pounds). Members of the state boxing commission agreed to give the challenger an extra 30 minutes in which to make the required weight, and Anderson sat in an electrical steam cabinet and was pummeled by a masseur in an effort to sweat and rub the excess ounces off.

Thirty minutes later he was still a quarter-pound too heavy. Anderson begged the commissioners to wink at the difference and let the fight go on. It did—but without Bass's title on the line.

Anderson's weight was the first of two huge dark clouds suddenly looming over the event. After several days of ideal weather, late on the afternoon of the fight it started to rain.

"When the news got around that Anderson failed to make the championship weight the sale [of tickets] went dead," reported Dunn in the Sentinel the next morning. That and "the rain that started at 4 o'clock … kept a number of state patrons from driving in."

When Bass and Andrews stepped into the orchard ring at about 10 p.m., the attendance was a disappointing 4,500, and the $30,000 gate envisioned by Andrews amounted to only a third of that.

Cowboy Eddie came out with both guns blazing, but the Little Fish had called it correctly. After Anderson was counted out in the third round his handlers had to carry all 130-plus inert pounds of him back to the dressing room.

The Sentinel photographer was on the scene when Eddie Anderson sunk to the canvas for the fourth and final time at the ball park Tuesday night. Benny Bass put him there after three punches had floored Eddie and weakened his resistance. Referee Walter Houlchen is the other figure in the picture.

1944 Team Photo

Heritage Auctions

This gorgeous 1944 Brewers team photo was recently sold by Heritage Auctions.

Right in the center, we have Casey Stengel, the Perfessor himself. To his right sits coach Red Smith, one of the Brewers' stawarts for decades. Some of the others are harder to identify. Fortunately for us, an almost-identical photo, taken at the same time, was published in the Milwaukee Journal on Sunday, July 23, 1944.

—Journal Staff

Here are your Milwaukee Brewers who Wednesday night will oppose the stars of the seven other American association teams in the annual All-Star game at Borchert field. Left to right, they are (top row) Owen Scheetz, pitcher; Frank Secory, outfielder; Julio Acosta, pitcher; Roy Easterwood, catcher; Ed LEvy, outfielder; Bill Norman, outfielder; Charles Sproull, pitcher; Earl Caldwell, pitcher; George Binks, utility man; Floyd Speer, pitcher; (second row) Trainer Robert Feron, Coach Red Smith, Manager Casey Stengel; Ken Raddant, catcher; Ed Scheiwe, utility infielder; Jack Farmer, pitcher; General Manager Rudy Schaffer; (bottom row) Bill Nagel, third baseman; Heinz Becker, first baseman; Harold Peck, outfielder; Tommy Nelson, second baseman; Don Hendrickson, pitcher; Jim Pruett, catcher; Dick Culler, shortstop, and Charles Gassaway, pitcher. Batboy Clyde Liedtke is in front.

This is also a wonderful look at Borchert Field being prepared for a game, with the rows of fixed seats in back and the very spiffy ushers setting up folding chairs in the field boxes.

With team prexy Bill Veeck in the Marines, these Brewers would go on to glory, bringing the 1944 American Association pennant to the Cream City fans. The glory would be short-lived; Stengel would move on after only one season in Milwaukee, following conflicts with team management. But that's a story for another day.

John House - One Cup of Coffee With the Brewers

By Dennis Pajot

I ran across an article in the February 9, 1913, Milwaukee Journal about Native Americans playing in professional baseball. The article said in 1912 the Milwaukee Brewers had an Indian on the team "for all of two days when [business manager] Charlie Moll dug up John House and brought him on here for a tryout. He worked out just one afternoon in right garden, during which time Manager Duffy worried for fear that he would be hit on top of the head with a fly ball and injured before he could be brought in and shipped back to Iowa on the night train."

I looked in the SABR Encyclopedia and Baseball-Reference and found no John House listed as playing with the Brewers. I had no idea when this game was played—if it was even a game he played "right garden" in, or a practice season. I put the name John House into Google News, hoping against hope to find something. Shiver me timbers, there was one entry for John House, and it was the game he played in. Then I had only to back track in the newspapers and find all I could. I found quite a bit for a guy who only played one game with the American Association Brewers.

On Thursday, May 16, 1912, the Milwaukee Journal wrote:

"Looks as if everybody in the A.A. had got the speed bug in their bonnet. [Hugh] Duffy is particularly sweet on the speed stuff and added an outfielder, John Hause [sic], to his gang yesterday. Hause, according to dope, is lightening fast on the field and the bases. They say the newcomer, who is a full blooded Indian, by the way, is about as fast as [Ralph] Capron and you all know what that means."

The Milwaukee Sentinel of the same day reported:

"Manager Duffy announced the purchase of John House, a new outfielder, on Wednesday, from the Ottumwa, Ia. club of the Central association. House, who is an Indian, has been hitting the ball at a frightful pace in the bush, and as he is a reliable fielder and a fast runner, Duffy decided to given him a chance. He is expected to report here on Thursday."

The May 17 Milwaukee Journal reported that House arrived in Milwaukee the day before and there was a chance he would play in that afternoon’s game. The paper reported House was “a big, powerful-looking chap.”

The Milwaukee Sentinel of May 17 was a gold mine. Here is the portion of the local baseball article concerning the new Brewer.

John House, the Oneida brave joined our aggregation of nations on Thursday, and there is a possibility that Duf will insert him in the box score on Friday. House is a son of the Oneidas, and he lives on the Oneida reservation in Wisconsin. He is a big husky looking fellow, and looks not unlike Big Chief Meyers on the Giants.

He started to play professional ball three years ago with the Burlington club of the Central Association. He had some trouble there and jumped to the outlaw league on the Pacific coast where he played until a year ago. Of course he was put on the blacklist but he managed to play ten or twelve games with the Appleton club of the W-I [Wisconsin-Illinois] league last spring before it was discovered that he was under the ban. This spring he was restored to good standing on condition that he would report to the Ottumwa club, which is owned by the former owners of the Burlington franchise. He began to punch the ball like a fiend as soon as the season opened, and his warclub boosted him to our select set. If he can whale the ball the redskin will be a blessing in disguise, for Duffy surely needs an able bodied swatssmith on the club.

—Milwaukee Sentinel May 17, 1912

House was a very popular player in Iowa. Only a few days before the Brewers acquired the outfielder the Waterloo Evening Courier wrote on May 13: "John House, the Indian, who has been on Ned Egans’s pay roll for several seasons, was given an ovation when he stepped to the plate the first time. The 'big chef' was always popular in this city and his absence of two years did not lessen his popularity in Waterloo." A year and a half later (December 20, 1913)—when he was traded by Ottumwa—the Waterloo Evening Courier wrote House was "one of the best drawing cards in the minors." Manager Egan certainly liked the big outfielder, as he owned the rights to him five separate times - in Burlington and Ottumwa.

But there were rumblings about House's playing. On May 17, 1912, the Waterloo Reporter ran this dispatch, originally from the Burlington Gazette:

John House, the full-blooded Indian and thoroughbred base ball player, who in the minds of many is one of the greatest, if not the very greatest, natural ball player ever seen in these parts, has been sold by Manager Ned Egan of Ottumwa to Milwaukee. Report does not state the price secured for the best of all Indians, nor whether or not he will be sent to the new club at once.

The sale of House had been anticipated from the very start of the season. House, by his indifferent manner, wasted some of the best individual baseball talent ever bestowed on any man. He never cared much about the game, but nature had made him an adept at all angles of it. McCloskey, who had him at St. Louis, after purchasing him from Burlington, said that a man was never given a better pair of eyes than the good-natured Indian had, and this was true, for the Burlington fan who saw John House strike out more than twice during the entire time he was with Burlington saw something that few of his friends did.

House refused to stay with St. Louis because he was a bench warmer, and his refusal no doubt robbed him of a chance to become one of the stars of the country. He has wasted the past four or five years, and still is so good that he was picked up two weeks after he got back into the game. The Milwaukee ownership is practically the same as the St. Louis management which owned him, and they know what they are getting. A slugging batter, a position bunter, a speed man in all respects, and a brilliant outfielder, is House, and he may yet make the most of his talent. He is at no disadvantage in faster company, as nothing can embarrass him in playing the game and no pinch can take his presence of mind away from him.

On May 18 the Milwaukee Sentinel wrote:

"House whaled the ball hard in batting practice yesterday morning, but he is said to be an uncertain outfielder.... John House practiced in the field with the Brewers before the game [against the St. Paul Saints] and Duffy had him tabbed for right field until it was announced that [Ed] Karger, a left hand pitcher, would work. [Regular right fielder Newt Randall played right field]. It is probable that the redskin will get in the game this afternoon."

John House played right field in the Saturday May 18, 1912, game at Athletic Park against the Minneapolis Millers. The box score showed he went 0 for 4 with no runs scored, no putouts, assists or errors. The Minneapolis pitcher was the right hander Ralph Comstock.

The Milwaukee Journal game article said this about him: "John House, the Brewers' latest addition in outfielders, was tried but after the first ripple of applause there was very little cause to be overjoyed over his coming. As a fence breaker, he failed to show anything in four chances. In the field he had no chance other than to return the remnants of a single, which he did in anything but a finished manner. However, his surroundings were new and his team mates were not much of an inspiration, so it's hardly fair to judge him yet." In his notes on the game Journal sports columnist Brownie wrote: "House did not have anything but a thinking part in the outfield, while the only time he hit the ball out of the diamond was on his fourth attempt."

The Milwaukee Sentinel did not make mention of House in its game summary in its May 19 issue, but the next morning had these two sentences. "John House, the Oneida Indian secured from the Ottumwa, Iowa club was turned back to that organization by Manager Duffy on Sunday [May 19]. He did not show A.A. class, and was handed the tinware quickly. He only came here for a trial."

The Milwaukee Journal of May 20 wrote: "Outfielder John House, the Oneida Indian, did not last long as a Brewer. He was shipped back right after his showing in Saturday's game."

For the record, the Brewers lost to the Millers 6 to 0 in the game House played in.

John House ended up playing 122 games with the Ottumwa Speedboys of the Class D Central Association in 1912. He played in various lower minor leagues from 1904 to 1914. This is the short stat list for House from Baseball-Reference, to which I added the one game I found with the Brewers:

                         Games  AB  Hits  Average
1904 Marshalltown-ILPB     108    450  130   .289
1905 Ottumwa               119    475  136   .286
1906 Burlington-ILPB       127    489  129   .264
1907 Burlington-ILPB       129    513  158   .308
1908 Burlington-           112    447  137   .306
      Central Ass.
1909 Minneapolis-CKSL       ?     138   32   .232
1909 Santa Cruz,            16     50    8   .160
      Fresno, Ind.
1909 Sacramento-PCL        121    423  109   .258
1912 Ottumwa-Cental Ass.   122    462  151   .327
1912 Milwaukee-A.A.          1      4    0   .000
1913 Ottumwa-Central Ass.  118    431  114   .265
1914 Fort William-Port     126    433  119   .275
      Arthur- Northern League

Bingo's Glove

Here's a great look at the custom glove worn by former Brewer first-sacker George Alvin "Bingo" Binks, who passed away last November.

The glove was his lucky charm, and as the leather wore out he had the pocket replaced with a Frankenstein's Monster of wire.

From Paul Tenpenny's excellent profile of Bingo last year:

George Binks with the 1941 Milwaukee Brewers
(collection of Paul Tenpenny)

As early as 1941, George's first baseman's mitt was a topic of much conversation. Seemingly held together with tape and bailing wire, the team couldn't get him to give it up. It was a good luck charm given to him by a major league scout when he first began playing baseball in 1936. It was the cause of much laughter and some consternation with manager Charlie Grimm who considered it a "hunk of leather."

"I just can't part with it," said Binks in 1944, "There's a lot of memories in that piece of leather. It's not the fanciest glove, I know, but I prefer it to a new one." Binks turned down a new glove offered to him by manager Grimm. The web of the glove is made of bird cage wire put together by a Green Bay clubhouse boy when the leather wore out. "It's been a luck charm so I will go on using it," said Binks.

Well, he did use it until a storm tore the roof off of Borchert field on June 15th. In the ensuing excitement he lost the treasured keepsake.

That homemade glove is one of the hundreds of personal details which color the rich history of the minor league Brewers and the characters who took the field at Borchert's Orchard. And I love the classic block-M uniform he's wearing.

1945 Opening Day Ticket Stub

The lucky bearer of this ticket got to see the Brews open their 1945 season (defending their 1944 American Association pennant) at Borchert Field for a mere $1.40 (including twenty-three cents federal tax).

The running Owgust icon was a staple of the Brews in the early 1940s. Adapting iconography from newspaper cartoons dating back to the beginning of the century, the Brewers introduced this version of the character who rapidly became the club's symbol.

The basic template of this ticket went back at least three seasons, as seen by this 1943 printer's proof:

$1.40 in 1945 dollars had the same buying power as $17.60 does in 2011. Not a bad deal to watch a pretty good club.

Back, In Blue, Part II

Here it is - the other American League Milwaukee Brewers prototype uniform, as seen in the Milwaukee Journal on April 1, 1970.

—AP photo

NICE UNIFORM—Judy Deters of Milwaukee modeled the uniform the new Milwaukee Brewers will wear when they open the season Tuesday against the California Angels at County Stadium.

The photograph had been making the rounds for several weeks; here it is from the Dubuque Telegraph-Herald on March 18, where the model is identified as Judith Peters.

Although not identified as such in the captions, it has since been reported that the jersey was navy pinstripes. The script was trimmed in navy, like the Brews wore their last few decades in the American Association.

The picture was brought back by Journal on April 1st as part of the paper's coverage of the court decision allowing Bud Selig to buy and move the Seattle Pilots to Milwaukee, coverage that started under the triumphant headline "We're Big League Again!"

Her uniform was also referenced in Associated Press coverage of the case, as in this article published in the St. Petersburg Times just before the decision came down:

...a few things have just possibly been done to get ready (for the team to move to Milwuakee), but you couldn't prove it by anything anyone says officially. You could get more operational details out of a Russian submarine commander than you could out of the Brewers.

Uniforms for instance. Uniforms? Um, yes. Nobody can say about uniforms. But there is a pin stripe model with a script "Brewers" on it hanging in a downtown sporting goods supply store.

This Los Angeles Times article about Milwaukee's preparations for big league call (printed on March 28, 1970), contained another tantalizing nugget:

Opening-day tickets are believed to have been printed. Uniforms for the players with Brewers written in script across the chest have been unveiled, although it is not known if the full order has been completed.

I think it's safe to say that they hadn't, because after the decision came down the Brewers issued this peek at their proposed uniforms.

Piping instead of pinstripes, and "BREWERS" in fancy block capitals instead of script.

So what happened? The day after it printed the picture of the pinstriped prototype, the Milwaukee Journal ran an article on the new club's uniforms:

Brewers Make Uniform Adjustments

There were those who said it would be a cold day when Milwaukee got back into major league baseball, or major league baseball got back into Milwaukee. Sure enough, it was snowing when Bud Selig held his press conference at the Pfister Hotel Wednesday.

The Brewers had been trying for five years, off and on, to get a ball club, and now here they were with one and less than a week to get ready for opening day at County Stadium.

As might be expected, arrangements were hectic, to say the least, but Selig came frowning through the whole thing in good style.

Quick Change

"What about the uniforms?" he was asked.

"Very simple," he said. "We just tear off the 'Pilots' and substitute 'Brewers' and we put an 'M' on the cap in place of an 'S'. Colors for the accessories are blue and gold.

Well, there went the story—and the pictures—that the Brewers had new uniforms all made up and ready for the new team. It turned out that three or four pilot (if you'll excuse the expression) sets were turned out two or three years ago, just in case.

"We figured if the team we got didn't have good uniforms, we'd then make our own," Selig said. Seattle's uniforms are fine, with the minor adjustments."

So there you have it. The pinstripes were out. A couple minor changes to the uniforms they brought with them, and the Brewers were born. They didn't even bother to remove the Pilots' distinctive (if ugly) sleeve trim.

What we don't know is why the intended fancy letters never made it onto the Brewers' jerseys. For whatever reason, they were replaced with arched block letters.

In the following seasons, when the craziness died down and the Brewers had time to make the jerseys more their own, the club modified the trim and ended up with something nearly identical to that second prototype, with piping at the neck and cuffs. The arched block letters remained, survived the 1978 overhaul, and to this day are featured on the club's alternate uniforms.

So the pinstriped prototype, seen prominently displayed "in a downtown sporting goods supply store", never got beyond three or four samples, and never took the field (pinstripes, of course, would make their County Stadium debut in 1978). I wonder if any of those samples survived.

(h/t: DW, Uni Watch)

Come on Down!

In conjunction with Paul Tenpenny's exhibition at the Milwaukee Public Library, there is a rare opportunity to hear some former Brewers speak this weekend.

OnMilwaukee.com has the details:

In conjunction with the exhibition, the Society for American Baseball Research's Ken Keltner Badger State Chapter holds its meeting this weekend at the library's Centennial Hall, 733 N. 8th St.

The meeting – free and open to the public – starts at 11 a.m. on Saturday, May 7 and will feature a panel that includes former Brewers and Braves players Johnny Logan and Bert Thiel, Bill Topitzes, who worked for the AA Brewers and Dennis Pajot, author of two books about Milwaukee baseball.

The panel is moderated by baseball historian Bob Buege, who has written two books about the Milwaukee Braves.

In addition, Pajot will do a presentation on Otto Borchert.

You know Dennis, recipient of the 2010 Sporting News-SABR Baseball Research Award, from his books and his many articles on this site. I am honored to host his excellent work, and can't wait to hear what he has to say about Otto.

I would encourage any fan of baseball in Milwaukee, or Wisconsin for that matter, to check it out. I wish I could be there.