@thesportsontap: The last time the Milwaukee Brewers made the World Series, their manager had one leg. Two years earlier, Harvey Kuenn had his right leg amputated below the knee. He was back at work six months later. Then he took over a team that was under .500 and got it to Game 7 of the World Series. He had already survived a quadruple bypass. Then the circulation in his leg went, and four operations could not save it. His wife Audrey said the doctors "couldn't believe the strength of this guy." When the Brewers fired their manager in June of that year, they were 23 and 24. They gave the job to the coach with one leg. His first team meeting was short. "I hate meetings. And this meeting is over." They went 72 and 43 the rest of the way. They hit so many home runs that people called them Harvey's Wallbangers. They lost Game 7 to the St. Louis Cardinals. Milwaukee has never won a World Series. He passed away six years later, at 57. Don Money said it best. "Even though he was my boss, he was just like a father to me." One of his prosthetic legs ended up hanging from the ceiling of 4th Base, a bar and restaurant in West Milwaukee, where the staff treats it like a good luck charm. Nobody agrees on how it got there. When local TV checked in 2018, it was still up there with a Brewers cap on it. This week the Brewers are back in the World Series for the first time since his team. The last man to manage them there did it on one leg. #MLB #baseball #brewers #milwaukeebrewers #milwaukee

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