Radio Interview on WUWM’s “Lake Effect”

I was lucky enough to be interviewed on Milwaukee’s NPR station, WUWM, about the real-life inspiration for The Rhino in Right Field. Washington Park, the minor league Brewers, growing up Greek, and girls’ baseball–it’s all here. I hope you like it! When Baseball Practice Was at the Milwaukee Zoo

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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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