Yesterday in La Crosse
No baseball in Milwaukee? How La Crosse fans coped 50 years ago
In 1967, baseball fans in the Badger State had no major league franchise to call their own, after the Braves moved to Atlanta. For a few years, WKBH Radio in La Crosse aired Minnesota Twins games, until the Brewers came to Wisconsin in 1970. The Twins broadcast team included Merle Harmon, Halsey Hall, and Herb Carneal.
The price of mailing a letter in ’67 was five cents, and would rise by a penny the next year. Postmaster General Lawrence O’Brien, later commissioner of the NBA, suggested making the Post Office a non-Cabinet department, taking the power to set postal rates away from Congress.
Country music was a big draw at the Sawyer Auditorium in La Crosse. One April show that year featured Conway Twitty, Sonny James, and future “Hee Haw” star Roy Clark. Fifty years ago, Yesterday in La Crosse.
