The long and winding road
August 18, 2015 5:29 PM   Subscribe

The Biloxi Shuckers are the AA affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. Due to delays in building their stadium, they had to start the season with a bit of a road trip. A fifty-eight straight day road trip.
posted by Chrysostom (6 comments total) 8 users marked this as a favorite
 
My old hometown favorite team is the Helena Brewers (also a Milwaukie team). They recently unveiled their new mascot: a wooly mammoth.
posted by Brocktoon at 7:23 PM on August 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


"We have got a 58-day road trip coming up. What's our record?"...
posted by Windopaene at 7:25 PM on August 18, 2015


"Eight and sixteen."
"Eight...and sixteen. How'd we ever win eight?"
"It's a miracle."
posted by Chrysostom at 8:11 PM on August 18, 2015 [1 favorite]


"1943 was a bad year in the Patriot League, which as you probably don't remember was then the third major league. In the Golden Age its stars, Luke Gofannon, Mike Mazda, Smokey Woden and the rest, had been the peers in skill and fame of Cobb, Ruth and Johnson; but decline followed, and World War II drew off most of the able-bodied players ...

... follow the season of the worst team in the history of the game, the Mundys of Port Ruppert, New Jersey, who lost even their stadium to the demands of the war effort and were thus condemned to play all 154 games on the road, managing to lose 120 of them.
posted by mrgrimm at 9:33 PM on August 18, 2015 [2 favorites]


I saw them play in Pensacola last month -- had no idea about the road trip. We just had lots of fun with the name Shuckers -- "Get Shucked!" "Everybody Shuck Now!" etc.
posted by JanetLand at 8:55 AM on August 19, 2015


We used to have a Can-Am League team in my city, and one year there were an uneven number of teams and so they had a traveling team, the Grays, who played all of their games on the road. Their logo was actually a road.

I would always cheer for them when they came to town because how do you not cheer for the team with no home? They also sold hats, and I'm super pissed at myself for not grabbing one.
posted by rollbiz at 5:05 PM on August 19, 2015


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