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On July 14, 1999, at approximately 5:12 pm, the Big Blue collapsed during the construction of the Miller Park (now American Family Field) baseball stadium in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, with a load of over 450 tonnes (440 long tons; 500 short tons) on the hook.
Teamwork is a public sculpture by Omri Amrany located at American Family Field west of downtown Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Teamwork is cast in bronze and honors Jeffrey Wischer, William DeGrave, and Jerome Starr, the three Iron Workers Local 8 members killed by the Big Blue Crane collapse during the construction of the new baseball stadium. [1]
The Brewers opened the 1999 season intending to bid farewell to their old park. On July 14, three construction workers at the Miller Park site were killed in the collapse of the site's "Big Blue" crane while attempting to install a 400-ton roof panel. A good part of the construction site was also damaged as a result.
In fact, a plaque and life-size figure of Uecker were placed on the last row of Section 422 in Milwaukee's American Family Field (then Miller Park) in 2014 in commemoration.
Some Milwaukee fans commemorated the occasion by making unofficial t-shirts that said, "The Cleveland Indians of Milwaukee; Established 1989, Re-established 2007." Hurricane Ike 's landfall in Houston forced the Chicago Cubs and Houston Astros to play a two-game series at American Family Field on Sunday, September 14 and Monday, September 15 ...
Willie Mays trotted home after slugging a three-run homer in the first inning of a 1975 Old Timers Game at County Stadium in Milwaukee. It was the last home run he hit in a big-league park.
An 18-year-old man was found shot dead early Friday morning on the Carver Park basketball court, Milwaukee County officials said. Jaylan A. Powell of Milwaukee was located about 1:25 a.m. by a ...
George Anthony Petak Jr. (November 6, 1949 – December 24, 2024) was an American Republican politician and political consultant from Racine, Wisconsin.He served five and a half years in the Wisconsin Senate, representing Wisconsin's 21st Senate district from 1991 until he was recalled from office in June 1996.