BREWERS IQ trivia book now on AMAZON

My Brewers trivia book Milwaukee Brewers IQ: Ultimate Test of True Fandom Black Mesa Publishing for $11.95 http://bit.ly/atYSDv Please start spreading the word. Enjoy reflecting on 40 years of Brewers baseball as you challenge your trivia skills with this book.

I am looking forward to another exciting Brewers season and am hopeful for postseason glory!

I will be attending my first ever Opening Day on Monday. I am thinking we'll arrive early and catch a batting practice home run ball. Hope to see you at the ballpark this season!

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OPENING DAY TRIVIA QUESTION

What Brewer hit two Opening Day grand slams?

Trivia book MILWAUKEE BREWERS IQ is scheduled to be released APRIL 6, the day after the Brewers home opener against Rockies.

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"The title sums it up perfectly. Joel Katte has done an excellent job of teasing the reader with relatively common knowledge early, and frustrating the most diehard of Brewers fans by the “final out.” The aficionado will even be mentally transported to the place they heard or saw the respective event in question. Katte has done his homework and I cannot wait for more. This is a must-have at any Milwaukee tailgate party. Go Brewers!"
--Ethan J. Hoehn, Chicago

Dreaming of Spring Training Camp

One more football game and then sports fans can begin dreaming of sunny spring baseball in Florida and Arizona. Sometimes I catch myself wondering why I spend my winters in Wisconsin but then I remember nobody beats our summers.

The start of February assures me that pitchers and catchers will be reporting to spring training camp in a couple of weeks. I love this time of year. Whenever the pitchers and catchers reported to camp when I was a kid, so did I. I grabbed baseball gloves, a ball, and a shovel and shoveled the snow out of our backyard. I shoveled and shoveled until I saw a good sixty feet and six inches of grass for my Dad and me to play catch on when he returned from a day's worth of welding in our Wisconsin winter's wind chills. We ended our February spring training camp sessions with Dad throwing me some snowball batting practice sessions.

February means spring's renewal of buds, birds, blades of grass, and bugs with another Major League Baseball season of Milwaukee Brewers, bats, balls, and beer is close and that gives me hope, hope that our days will last a little longer and the Brewers might win their first ever World Series championship.

It won't bother me if the groundhog predicts a few extra weeks of winter tomorrow morning, for I know I can shovel my way into my childhood spring training camp in just a couple of weeks, giving me ample time to assure that my throwing arm will be in playing shape for some tailgating toss by the time Opening Day rolls around in April.

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