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'82 Brew crew remembered: former players recall their march to glory in winning A.L. pennant in Milwaukee 20 years ago.
IT'S FUNNY THE THINGS THAT PEOPLE remember. Twenty years later "Stormin" Gorman Thomas recalls the ketchup bottle in the briefcase.
"Mike Caldwell would have a $400 valise and the only things he'd have in it were a newspaper and a 32-ounce bottle of ketchup," the former Brewer center fielder said with a deep laugh. "I'd say, `Dirty Eddie (his nickname), why the hell do you have that in your briefcase?'"
The answer was easy.
"They never give you enough of the stuff when you're in a restaurant," Caldwell coolly explained. "Those little itty-bitty packets they give you are never enough."
Thomas and Caldwell were key members of the 1982 ...
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