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Professor Baseball Retires


Professor Baseball, the familiar animated character featured on the scoreboard during each baseball game at Miller Park in Milwaukee, has retired.

The original three-year agreement UW-Milwaukee and the Milwaukee Brewers created before the team’s first season at Miller Park has expired. The university’s partnership is continuing for the 2004 season, but--like so many other projects at UWM--it has been scaled back due to budget concerns.

The professor's appearance every game on the scoreboard was not included in the new agreement. What will continue is display of the university's highly visible sign in the right-field bullpen, the university’s NCAA Division I baseball team's annual double-header at the ballpark (vs. Detroit Mercy, Sunday, May 2, 5 p.m.) and a scaled back UWM Night (Friday, June 18), sponsored by the UWM Alumni Association.

You can still read about the professor on the links from this page, and the professor’s dedicated team will still respond to your questions sent in by e-mail.

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Websites:
About Baseball [baseball.about.com/sports/baseball/mbody.htm]
Baseball Almanac [baseball-almanac.com]
Baseball America Online [www.baseballamerica.com/index.html]
Baseball Archive [www.baseball1.com]
Baseball Links [www.baseball-links.com]
Baseballparks.com [www.baseballparks.com]
Baseball Primer - baseball for the thinking fan [www.baseballprimer.com]
Baseball-Reference.com [www.baseball-reference.com]
Major League Baseball [www.mlb.com]
Milwaukee Brewers history page [web.syr.edu/~bsroth/thehistorypage.htm]
Milwaukee Brewers Official Web Site [brewers.mlb.com]
Milwaukee County Stadium [www.ballparks.com/baseball/national/county.htm]
Minor League Baseball [www.minorleaguebaseball.com]
National Baseball Hall of Fame [baseballhalloffame.org/index.htm]
USA Baseball [www.usabaseball.com]

Books:
Babe, Robert W. Creamer (1974, Simon and Schuster)
The Baseball Hall of Fame 50th Anniversary Book, Gerald Astor (1988, Prentice Hall Press)
Baseball on the Record, Michael G. Corenthal (1998, MGC Publications)
The Boys of Summer, Roger Kahn (1971, Harper & Row Publishers Inc.)
Diamonds, Michael Gershman (1993, Houghton Mifflin Company)
Green Cathedrals, Philip J. Lowry (1992, Addison-Wesley Publishing Co. Inc.)
I Was Right on Time, Buck O’Neil (1996, Simon and Schuster)
Keep Your Eye on the Ball, Robert G. Watts and A. Terry Bahill (2000, W.H. Freeman and Co.)
Maybe I’ll Pitch Forever, LeRoy (Satchel) Paige and David Lipman (1993, University of Nebraska Press)
The New Dickson Baseball Dictionary, Paul Dickson (1999, Harcourt Brace and Company)
The Physics of Baseball, Robert K. Adair (1994, HarperCollins Publishing Inc.)
Shoeless Joe, W.P. Kinsella (1982, Random House Inc.)
Summer of ’49, David Halberstam (1989, William Morrow and Company Inc.)
The Ultimate Baseball Book, Daniel Okrent and Harris Lewine (1991, Houghton Mifflin Company)

Brad Stratton
UWM University Relations
stratton@uwm.edu
(414) 229-4027
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Milwaukee, WI 53211