Among regular players, Felix Mantilla was the last living Milwaukee Brave to appear in the World Series. Through youth baseball, his legacy endures.
Felix Mantilla, a one-time All-Star with the Boston Red Sox and World Series champion as a member ... But Mantilla's MLB career would quickly fizzle. He was traded to the Houston Astros for ...
Mantilla was one of only a handful of players remaining from the Braves 1957 World Series championship team. The Milwaukee Brewers offered their condolences to his family in a social media post ...
and the Major League Baseball team for which he played left town after the 1965 season. But Milwaukee never stopped being home for Mantilla, the last living regular on the 1957 World Series ...