As a teenager, Jim Bark would wait outside the visiting teams clubhouse at County Stadium in Milwaukee hoping to get an autograph from some of his favorite baseball players. The Racine, Wisconsin ...
his only one as a Milwaukee Brave,” he continued. “I hit one that day, too, my 399th. Eddie Mathews, left, was managing the Atlanta Braves when he hooked back up with his old roommate ...
He first entered the public eye as a catcher for the 1962 Milwaukee Braves, a high-profile ballclub that included three future Hall of Fame players in Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn ...
He played for the Milwaukee Braves, St. Louis Cardinals ... His teammates included Hall of Famers Niekro, Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn of the Braves and, in St. Louis, Bob Gibson ...
Mantilla played the first seven years of his career with the Milwaukee Braves, playing on some excellent teams with Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and Warren Spahn. After going to the 1962 Mets in the ...
The Milwaukee Braves had a fairytale ending in 1957 when ... As the ball got away, Mantilla reached base. Eddie Mathews would hit a sacrifice that would move the infielder to second.
Mantilla, one of the first Puerto Ricans to play in the majors, played for the Milwaukee Braves ... and after he was sacrificed to second by Eddie Mathews, the next batter, Henry Aaron was ...
Joe Adcock, a Coushatta Louisiana native, was often overshadowed by players like Hank Aaron. But he was a great ballplayer ...
I had a workout with the Braves. I was, like ... “But he eventually scraped it up.” In Milwaukee, Uecker was a teammate of Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews and Warren Spahn. Then he went to the Cardinals to ...
Felix Mantilla, a champion with the Milwaukee Braves who continued to make his mark on the community in retirement, has died at age 90. Mantilla was one of only a handful of players remaining from ...
the last living regular on the 1957 World Series champion and the 1958 runner-up Milwaukee Braves. Mantilla, a native of Puerto Rico who stayed in Milwaukee and left a youth-baseball legacy ...