Baseball in Beertown: America's Pastime in Milwaukee

ISBN-10: 1879483947
ISBN-13: 9781879483941
Category: Baseball
Pages: 191
Language: English
Published: 2005
Publisher: Big Earth Publishing
Author: Todd Mishler

Description

Attention baseball fans! Take a tour through the glory days of Milwaukee baseball when Hank Aaron, Warren Spahn, and Eddie Mathews were starring for the Braves and Robin Yount, Paul Molitor, and Rollie Fingers were mainstays of the Brewers. Read about the Braves' dramatic moves from Boston to Milwaukee and then to Atlanta, the Brewers' early years and their later ups and downs, descriptions and achievements of the players, and the teams' close ties to the community, game statistics, snippets of actual newspaper stories, and more. This is a must-have book for every baseball fan!

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