http://bit.ly/atYSDv
Go ahead, test your Brewers trivia skills. Go to AMAZON.COM and locate MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF TRUE FANDOM and click "LOOK INSIDE" to see random questions like:
What Brewer set the franchise record with 53 doubles?
and
What did Bernie Brewer (Milt Mason, age 69) vow during his rookie season of 1970?
Go ahead and record answers below. If you get either correct, I will send you a free e-Book MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ: EXTRA INNINGS when it is available in the next couple of weeks.
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Friday, April 9, 2010
Saturday, March 13, 2010
MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ trivia book available April 6th!
Major League Baseball Trivia
Click here for first chance to purchase my new trivia book MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF TRUE FANDOM
Click here for first chance to purchase my new trivia book MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ: THE ULTIMATE TEST OF TRUE FANDOM
BREWERS IQ Trivia Book set to be released April 6th!
Release date set for April 6th, the day after the Brewers home opener!
"Our fourth MLB book in the IQ series, Milwaukee Brewers IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom, by author Joel Katte will be released on April 6. Joel is a former professional baseball player in the Angels minor league system. He’s also the co-author of Black Mesa’s soon-to-be-released St. Louis Cardinals IQ book and he is working on his memoir, The County Stadium Kid."
http://www.blackmesabooks.com/Black_Mesa_Publishing/Black_Mesa.html
"Our fourth MLB book in the IQ series, Milwaukee Brewers IQ: The Ultimate Test of True Fandom, by author Joel Katte will be released on April 6. Joel is a former professional baseball player in the Angels minor league system. He’s also the co-author of Black Mesa’s soon-to-be-released St. Louis Cardinals IQ book and he is working on his memoir, The County Stadium Kid."
http://www.blackmesabooks.com/Black_Mesa_Publishing/Black_Mesa.html
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Sneak Peak at My New MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ Trivia Book Due Out Before Opening Day
I just received a sneak peak at what my book's cover might look like. I like the focus on the stadium's signature roof and colors of the retro uniforms. The picture was taken on one of the "Arctic Freeze" 8 degrees days when fans were sleeping in tents, tailgating, and waiting for Opening Day tickets. Certainly, those diehards deserve "ultimate" status in true fandom.
Sunday, February 21, 2010
MILWAUKEE BREWERS 40th ANNIVERSARY TEAM
Twenty years ago fans voted and selected the following Milwaukee Brewers to the elite 20th Anniversary Team:
Pitchers: Mike Caldwell, Rollie Fingers, Pete Vuckovich
Catcher: Charlie Moore
First Base: Cecil Cooper
Second Base: Jim Gantner
Third Base: Paul Molitor
Shortstop: Robin Yount
Outfield: Sixto Lezcano, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglivie
Designated Hitter: Hank Aaron
Okay, so after twenty more years of Brewers baseball have been etched into Major League baseball history, who should be out and who should be in? Comment below and state your case for what Brewers should be on this year's 40th Anniversary Team.
Pitchers: Mike Caldwell, Rollie Fingers, Pete Vuckovich
Catcher: Charlie Moore
First Base: Cecil Cooper
Second Base: Jim Gantner
Third Base: Paul Molitor
Shortstop: Robin Yount
Outfield: Sixto Lezcano, Gorman Thomas, Ben Oglivie
Designated Hitter: Hank Aaron
Okay, so after twenty more years of Brewers baseball have been etched into Major League baseball history, who should be out and who should be in? Comment below and state your case for what Brewers should be on this year's 40th Anniversary Team.
Tuesday, August 11, 2009
BACK TO SCHOOL = TWITTER HIATUS
It’s back to school for me. Therefore, I posted the following tweets:
1) I start school Thursday. I'll be doing far less twittering; however, I'll continue to update my blog at www.countystadiumkid.blogspot.com
2) Please continue to tweet me your favorite baseball experiences. I will add them to my blog and consider using them for a future book project.
3) Also, please tweet me some of your favorite Milwaukee Brewers tidbits. I'm thinking of using them as trivia questions for a future blog post. (You can simply write the trivia question in the comment section after this post.)
4) Know that by no means is this me giving up on the Brew Crew. As crazy as it is, the kid in me still believes COUNSELL '09 WS MVP!
5) Thank you to all of you who have encouraged me with my book. I will tweet you when excerpts are posted on my blog and when the book is available.
6) Thank you all very much!
1) I start school Thursday. I'll be doing far less twittering; however, I'll continue to update my blog at www.countystadiumkid.blogspot.com
2) Please continue to tweet me your favorite baseball experiences. I will add them to my blog and consider using them for a future book project.
3) Also, please tweet me some of your favorite Milwaukee Brewers tidbits. I'm thinking of using them as trivia questions for a future blog post. (You can simply write the trivia question in the comment section after this post.)
4) Know that by no means is this me giving up on the Brew Crew. As crazy as it is, the kid in me still believes COUNSELL '09 WS MVP!
5) Thank you to all of you who have encouraged me with my book. I will tweet you when excerpts are posted on my blog and when the book is available.
6) Thank you all very much!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
TWITTER ‘Favorite Baseball Moment’ CHALLENGE CONTINUES
TWITTER ‘Favorite Baseball Moment’ CHALLENGE CONTINUES
To say I am ecstatic about the response I have received from my first blog entry would be an understatement. As I write this, we are at 39 comments and counting! Thank you to all who contributed to the “Twitter Favorite Baseball Moment Challenge” and to those who passed my link on to others. The link even landed in the hands of Wisconsin Governor Candidate Mark Neumann who tweeted (Dang, I told myself I wasn’t going to use those Twitter expressions!) me the following message: “@StrongWisconsin One of my all-time favorites was Dale Sveum's Easter shot: http://is.gd/1GzbF .”
Our favorite baseball experiences are fascinating snippets into defining moments of our lives. Often times these moments stick with us close enough to replay in our heads like an ESPN highlight. These memories make us feel something deeply; they take us back to important times in our lives; they’re shared with loved ones, some who may no longer be with us. Some baseball moments seem to slow us down, which we like since we can all attest that every year seems to go by just a little bit faster than the last. However, some of the best baseball memories were spent with happy strangers nudging us to share the same grandstand elbow rest. Whoever you played out your favorite baseball moments with, you were united with them as you all experienced the same thrills of the games.
Keep dusting off your favorite baseball experience memories and replay them in your minds like an ESPN Plays of the Week montage. Please continue to tweet the memories to www.twitter.com/joelkatte The tweets so far have been very exciting! I must say, the idea of someday compiling a more detailed account of these recollections would make for an outstanding book project.
Please continue to spread the word about this blog and my memoir. Email this link, re-tweet, Facebook, or simply share the old-fashioned way, word-of-mouth.
(SIDENOTE: If you do not Twitter, simply share your memories with the comments below by clicking on the pencil icon. Also, feel free to share more than one response in order to provide more details.)
Best wishes,
Joel Katte
joelkatte@yahoo.com
NEXT POST: “ALL-STARS AMONG US”
To say I am ecstatic about the response I have received from my first blog entry would be an understatement. As I write this, we are at 39 comments and counting! Thank you to all who contributed to the “Twitter Favorite Baseball Moment Challenge” and to those who passed my link on to others. The link even landed in the hands of Wisconsin Governor Candidate Mark Neumann who tweeted (Dang, I told myself I wasn’t going to use those Twitter expressions!) me the following message: “@StrongWisconsin One of my all-time favorites was Dale Sveum's Easter shot: http://is.gd/1GzbF .”
Our favorite baseball experiences are fascinating snippets into defining moments of our lives. Often times these moments stick with us close enough to replay in our heads like an ESPN highlight. These memories make us feel something deeply; they take us back to important times in our lives; they’re shared with loved ones, some who may no longer be with us. Some baseball moments seem to slow us down, which we like since we can all attest that every year seems to go by just a little bit faster than the last. However, some of the best baseball memories were spent with happy strangers nudging us to share the same grandstand elbow rest. Whoever you played out your favorite baseball moments with, you were united with them as you all experienced the same thrills of the games.
Keep dusting off your favorite baseball experience memories and replay them in your minds like an ESPN Plays of the Week montage. Please continue to tweet the memories to www.twitter.com/joelkatte The tweets so far have been very exciting! I must say, the idea of someday compiling a more detailed account of these recollections would make for an outstanding book project.
Please continue to spread the word about this blog and my memoir. Email this link, re-tweet, Facebook, or simply share the old-fashioned way, word-of-mouth.
(SIDENOTE: If you do not Twitter, simply share your memories with the comments below by clicking on the pencil icon. Also, feel free to share more than one response in order to provide more details.)
Best wishes,
Joel Katte
joelkatte@yahoo.com
NEXT POST: “ALL-STARS AMONG US”
Saturday, July 18, 2009
TWITTERing baseball experiences
TWITTER CHALLENGE
Okay, it’s hard to believe a 32 year-old man who listens to audio books on cassette tapes during his morning commute and who transfers home videos onto VHS tapes is starting a blog, but I am. And away we go …
“Look, Mom! No hands!”
With a little help from my friends, I imagine in a few weeks I might even be able to create podcasts and E-Books. So far about the only thing I figured out is how to TWITTER. It seems every time I pick up a newspaper or watch the news there's a story that is somehow tied to Twitter. I admit at first the name "Twitter" turned me off. In a Ralphie-like "You'll shoot your eye out" voice from the film CHRISTMAS STORY, my psyche warned "Don't do it; you'll Twitter your life away." Nonetheless, I gave it a go, and I'm glad I did.
I have connected with some pretty interesting and extraordinary people. (Don't worry, I'm not one of those guys who would have written "Tweeple" but the fact that I had to replace "people" with my first choice "tweeple," plus the fact that I am admitting this on my blog is rather concerning.)
I will start this blog with a Twitter challenge. (Don't worry I'm not selling anything and no prizes although I'd be happy to give some out if I can scrounge some up.) A few parts of my memoir COUNTY STADIUM KID describe some of my favorite experiences attending Milwaukee Brewers games as a child. Therefore, I am challenging you to “Tweet” (Dang, “write” lost out!) one of your favorite baseball experiences in 140 characters or less. Please feel free to post your responses on this blog, but be sure to send to @joelkatte at http://www.twitter.com/ so that we can see that indeed you pulled off your description in 140 characters without having to count each character.
I look forward to reading about your experiences. Who knows, I might ask you to feature your recollections in an upcoming book. (Of course, we will be sure to use more than 140 character to fully capture the essence of your baseball experiences.)
Thanks for reading! (Sorry for all the parenthesis. I don’t know what happened. I promise I won’t use this many in my future posts.)
Best wishes,
Joel
Okay, it’s hard to believe a 32 year-old man who listens to audio books on cassette tapes during his morning commute and who transfers home videos onto VHS tapes is starting a blog, but I am. And away we go …
“Look, Mom! No hands!”
With a little help from my friends, I imagine in a few weeks I might even be able to create podcasts and E-Books. So far about the only thing I figured out is how to TWITTER. It seems every time I pick up a newspaper or watch the news there's a story that is somehow tied to Twitter. I admit at first the name "Twitter" turned me off. In a Ralphie-like "You'll shoot your eye out" voice from the film CHRISTMAS STORY, my psyche warned "Don't do it; you'll Twitter your life away." Nonetheless, I gave it a go, and I'm glad I did.
I have connected with some pretty interesting and extraordinary people. (Don't worry, I'm not one of those guys who would have written "Tweeple" but the fact that I had to replace "people" with my first choice "tweeple," plus the fact that I am admitting this on my blog is rather concerning.)
I will start this blog with a Twitter challenge. (Don't worry I'm not selling anything and no prizes although I'd be happy to give some out if I can scrounge some up.) A few parts of my memoir COUNTY STADIUM KID describe some of my favorite experiences attending Milwaukee Brewers games as a child. Therefore, I am challenging you to “Tweet” (Dang, “write” lost out!) one of your favorite baseball experiences in 140 characters or less. Please feel free to post your responses on this blog, but be sure to send to @joelkatte at http://www.twitter.com/ so that we can see that indeed you pulled off your description in 140 characters without having to count each character.
I look forward to reading about your experiences. Who knows, I might ask you to feature your recollections in an upcoming book. (Of course, we will be sure to use more than 140 character to fully capture the essence of your baseball experiences.)
Thanks for reading! (Sorry for all the parenthesis. I don’t know what happened. I promise I won’t use this many in my future posts.)
Best wishes,
Joel
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