Bob buege biography
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For 13 years, the Braves were a Milwaukee institution. Now, the franchise will face the Brewers in the playoffs
On May 20, 1965, Bob Buege and five other University of Wisconsin students crammed into a vehicle and made the trip east to Milwaukee for perhaps the saddest baseball game Buege ever saw in person.
The goal was to watch Warren Spahn pitch one last time.
Bob buege biography
But this wasn’t Milwaukee’s Spahn; he’d been sent to the New York Mets before the season and was playing out the twilight of his career. Not only that, the game was played in the context of a lame-duck season; everyone knew the Braves were leaving Milwaukee for Atlanta after the year.
“He had lost almost everything and had very little left,” Buege said of the Mets starter that day.
“Spahn in the fourth inning gave up a grand slam to Eddie Mathews, and that was kind of the continental divide (moment). Either you were going to stick behind Spahn and be loyal to him or say, ‘Well, he’s old anyway, let’s go with (Wade) Bla