September 30, 2024, article<\/a>. The author spoke about the athlete’s dedication to charitable works, like visiting children in the hospital and supporting local youth programs. He shared that he attended Bible study and prayer services with teammates.\u00a0<\/p>\nFrelick was quoted saying as a young man he looked up to other athletes who gave back to their communities. \u201cAll of my success in sports is because I was given gifts from God and prayed hard about how to use them,\u201d he shared.<\/p>\n
The Brewers\u2019 success has been particularly inspiring because of their underdog status. Milwaukee is a small-marker player among other MLB teams with one of the smallest payrolls and developing players \u2014 characteristics that align with their blue-collar hometown.\u00a0<\/p>\n
All of this resonates deeply with the team\u2019s manager, also a lifelong Catholic, Pat Murphy. He\u2019s been widely and repeatedly described as a humble man who leads with a coaching philosophy rooted in his Catholic upbringing. He focuses on hard work, belief in oneself, and above all, the interdependence of playing as a team.\u00a0<\/p>\n
During the parade, commentators highlighted that \u201cMurph\u201d was seated on camp chairs in the back of a pickup at the end of the parade. In interviews, he continues to praise the teamwork and leadership among his players, dismissing his own role.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Many reporters noted the inter-generational aspect of this team\u2019s accomplishment, and how former Brewers baseball players were honored and included in the parade and championship celebrations.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Numerous men from the 1982 World Series runner-up team participated in the parade and spoke during the rally afterwards. In that championship run, the Brewers made it to Game 7 and had been leading into the sixth inning, before losing to the St. Louis Cardinals.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ted Simmons\u2019 was the Hall of Fame catcher for that \u201982 team. He admitted to the crowds gathered to celebrate this \u201926 team that his team never got over that loss, but said, \u201cWe\u2019re not over it because this group has made it happen for all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n
The other Catholic figure who might loom largest is the Brewers\u2019 beloved \u201cMr. Baseball\u201d and former announcer, Bob Uecker. Ueker played professional baseball in the 1950s and 60s, winning a World Series with the St. Louis Cardinals in 1964. But he is best known as the radio broadcaster for the Milwaukee Brewers, a role he held from 1971 until October 2024. He died from lung cancer in January 2025.<\/p>\n
During the parade, buses full of the players honored Uecker\u2019s lifelong support of the team, stopping beneath the 80-by-100-foot mural of \u201cMr. Baseball\u201d that was revealed and dedicated in June of this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Perhaps one of the most common comments among parade-goers, besides it being a \u201conce-in-a-lifetime\u201d experience, was that \u201cUeck\u201d must have been pulling for the team from heaven.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other connected Catholic witnesses<\/p>\n
Just hours after the Brewers clinched their first World Series title, Milwaukee Archbishop Jeffrey Grob and Saint Petersburg\u2019s Bishop Gregory Parkes made good on their friendly bet.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Before the Series began, Archbishop Grob said, \u201cThere\u2019s nothing like the excitement of the World Series to bring our two dioceses together in a spirit of friendly competition. While we\u2019re each cheering for our team to win, the real victory will be helping those in need through our Catholic Charities.\u201d<\/p>\n
For his part, Bishop Parkes delivered a generous donation to Milwaukee\u2019s Catholic Charities as well as a box of his hand-rolled episcopal cigars. Even though his team won, the Milwaukee prelate happily sent 30 pounds of brats, courtesy of a local meat market to the other diocese\u2019s meal charity meal program and a donation to the Florida diocese\u2019s Catholic Charities, even though his team won.<\/p>\n
Seminarians at the Archdiocese of Milwaukee\u2019s St. Francis de Sales Seminary \u2014 attended by seminarians from around the state \u2014 took part in the parade excitement on Friday, October 30. They were decked out in Brewers\u2019 caps and shirts, but many had their Roman collars showing.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Waving multiple flags \u2014 the American, Vatican, and seminary flags among them \u2014 one seminarian played a catchy tune on his trumpet accompanied by clapping. The group then led parade-goers in singing \u201cTake Me Out to the Ballgame,\u201d and others. A few of the seminarians held up celebratory posters. One invited: \u201cMass? Then Wolski\u2019s?\u201d the latter being a historic family-owned tavern popular for Brewers’ watch parties; another announced, as was the case for many young people at the parade, \u201cWe skipped class for this!\u201d<\/p>\n
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Seminary rector Fr. Luke Strand was interviewed by local news stations WTMJ4 during the festivities. Among numerous comments on the seminary\u2019s Facebook post, one noted how good it is \u201cfor young men to realize being a priest can be fun, too!\u201d Another thanked the men \u201cfor your yes to serving God in whatever way you are called.\u201d Many offered shout outs to their home-parish\u2019s seminarians.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The Seminary\u2019s Vice-Rector Fr. John Baumgardner told Aleteia, \u201cA great team, like the Brewers, plays with the mindset that it is not about you. And that\u2019s true in the Christian life \u2014 Jesus invites us to pour our life out for God and others. While hard, this sacrificial living bears fruit \u2014 and sometimes wins you the World Series!\u201d<\/p>\n
Fr. Brad Krawczyk, Director of Worship and Liturgical Formation at Saint Francis de Sales Seminary, summarized with a reference to a phrase Pope Leo has been quoting:\u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are invited to make sure that every aspect of our lives, including our athletic endeavors, will help us to love God and our neighbor.\u00a0 For any number of saints, sports were an important component of their lives.\u00a0 We were reminded that no one is born a champion, just as no one is born a saint.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“All of us are called to daily train through prayer, participation in the sacramental life, and service to neighbor to love like Jesus and become saints.\u00a0 Christians are called to run in the race of life with the objective of winning an imperishable crown of glory (cf. 1 Cor 9:24-25). Celebrating the Brewers\u2019 World Series Companionship is one way we can learn to live a Christ centered life and help build up our community while we celebrate its successes!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Brewers historic win brought about the largest single-day crowd ever recorded in Wisconsin history. But the joy…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":849336,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2401],"tags":[5,136,843,59,4280,4],"class_list":["post-849335","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-milwaukee-brewers","tag-baseball","tag-brewers","tag-milwaukee","tag-milwaukee-brewers","tag-milwaukeebrewers","tag-mlb"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@mlb\/117586707655193041","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849335","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=849335"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/849335\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/849336"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=849335"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=849335"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/mlb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=849335"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}