June 26. 2006 2:00AM - Last modified: March 14. 2012 1:56PM

Major League Baseball salutes Milwaukee tailgating

By Hector Barreto

The online news section of Major League Baseball (www.mlb.com) recently ran a feature story about Milwaukee's long and rich tradition of tailgating before and after Brewers' games.

"But there's something different, something unique about tailgating in Milwaukee.

It's not a fad. It's not a trend. It's a tradition that holds as a rite of passage. Take a walk down an aisle of any one of the half-dozen parking lots filled to capacity with tailgaters: grills in all shapes and sizes - some looking like they could hold enough food to feed most of the city - music blasting, any one of a number of Brewers jerseys and shirts on people of all ages, races and sizes. It's a culture not fully grasped unless seen in person. You don't breathe oxygen. You breathe the local trinity of bratwurst, beer and Brewers."

To read the complete story, visit

http://mlb.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/news/article.jsp?ymd=20060622&content_id=1518194&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb.


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