Your guide to the stretch run, part 4 Milwaukee

With a little over 2 months left in the season the NL Central appears to be headed for a four team race. Here is your handy cheat sheet for the teams and their corresponding cities. You decide who has the advantage.  Up next Milwaukee.

Part 1, Pittsburg(h)
Part 2, Cincinnati
Part 3, St. Louis

At last we get to the Brewers and Milwaukee.

Yes I write this with Brewer-colored glasses (and naturally those glasses are full of beer), this is a Brewers blog, but I'll try to keep it neutral.....ok that isn't happening

Your guide to the stretch run Part 3, St. Louis

With a little over 2 months left in the season the NL Central appears to be headed for a four team race. Here is your handy cheat sheet for the teams and their corresponding cities. You decide who has the advantage.  Up next St Louis.

Part 1, Pittsburg(h)
Part 2, Cincinnati

St. Louis Cardinals  

• No longer a football team
• Originally the St. Louis Browns
• Realized a team named the Browns would never be successful
• When will Cleveland figure this out
• Changed from Browns to Perfectos in 1899
• Party like it's 1899!!
• Changed to Cardinals a year later
• Perfectos is a stupid name

Your guide to the stretch run part 2, Cincinnati

With a little over 2 months left in the season the NL Central appears to be headed for a four team race. Here is your handy cheat sheet for the teams and their corresponding cities. You decide who has the advantage.  Up next Cincinnati.

 Part 1, Pittsburg(h)

Cincinnati Reds

• Original name was Red Stockings.
• I'd rather be the Alleghenys
• They kinda won the 1919 World Series.  
• That other team might have might have tanked to make some money.
• Baseball's first professional team
• Won first game 45-9 
• Went 57-0 in their first season
• Well they were the only pro team
• The competition stepped up in 1870 when they actually lost a game to the Brooklyn Atlantics
• And I thought Alleghenys was a stupid name

Your guide to the stretch run, part 1 Pittsburg(h)

With a little over 2 months left in the season the NL Central appears to be headed for a four team race. Here is your handy cheat sheet for the teams and their corresponding cities. You decide who has the advantage.  First we look at Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh Pirates

• Loveable America's darlings
• Last time they were relevant I didn't have a driver's license yet (19 years ago)
• Had the first home run in World Series history (Jimmy Sebring)
• Lost the first World Series in 1903 setting the stage for the next 108 years
• Won the World Series in 1909 1925 1960 1971 and 1979
• There was no steroid testing in 1909 1925 1960 1971 and 1979