MILWAUKEE -- It’s a good time to be a Brewers fan. You never know who you’ll run into at American Family Field.
Take Saturday, when the Brewers inducted one of the most recognizable closers in franchise history into their Wall of Honor, then took players on a lap of the parking lots to surprise fans with flying T-shirts before taking the field against the Giants with the best record in baseball .
Here’s how one busy day unfolded during a summer full of them.
Time: 2 p.m. CT
Location: On top of the home dugout
John Axford , the often-mustachioed right-hander who legend says signed in the middle of a Canadian blizzard in 2008 when the Brewers were the only team to show up -- yes, it was snowing, Axford says, but “blizzard” might be going too far -- finally got the closure he deserv