Then and Now: What the Washington Park Zoo looks like today

Not too long ago, I visited Washington Park in Milwaukee to see what’s left of the old zoo. It was abandoned in 1960, when Milwaukee County opened a new zoo on Bluemound Road. But Washington Park is still there, at the corner of 47th and Vliet streets, and the southwest corner of the park, where

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Bibliography for The Rhino in Right Field

Here’s a list of the major source materials I used while researching and writing The Rhino in Right Field: Printed material: Buege, Bob. Borchert Field: Stories from Milwaukee’s Legendary Ballpark. Madison, WI: The Wisconsin Historical Society, 2017. Dickson, Paul. Bill Veeck: Baseball’s Greatest Maverick. New York: Bloomsbury, 2012. Gurda, John. New World Odyssey: Annunciation Greek Orthodox Church and

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