A driver's license, a Brewers legend and a father's love for baseball
MILWAUKEE (CBS 58) -- While some people are celebrating the Brewers' postseason run, others are thinking of the people who have long passed and how they wished they were here to see it.
Somewhere alongside a statue honoring a Milwaukee legend, a little piece of Milwaukee history was hiding.
CBS 58’s Duaa Israr found an old 1980s driver's license, and had a question: Who did it belong to?
We put the license on social media, hoping someone might recognize the man in the picture.
Then his son, Bob Jones, reached out.
“He would have saved it. He would have clipped something out from the paper and saved the ticket stubs,” Jones said.
Louis Jones was a keeper of memories. And if it involved baseball, you can bet he kept it.
“My mom had worked for an ad agency called Peters and Peters. And they were doing something with the Brewers that he somehow finagled his way into involving him putting on a uniform... obviously, you can see he's delighted with how that turned out,” Jones said.
Some things are worth passing down. A love of baseball. A love of Milwaukee.
“He just... he loved the Brewers. He loved it every year. Even when they were not so great, he was always confident that this was going to at least be the year they broke .500,” Jones said.
Louis lived long enough to see Milwaukee lose one ballpark and build another.
And now, with the team on the doorstep of something Louis had dreamed about for decades, his absence is felt in a different way.
“You miss people when things that they would have loved to have been a part of are happening,” Jones said.
During Game 2 of the World Series, Jones brought his dad's driver's license to a game.
“I took it out of the wallet, and I was holding it when Cooper Pratt hit the go-ahead run. I kept it in my hand up until they got the final out,” Jones said.
And when Jones found the Bob Uecker statue, he knew what to do.
“He and Bob Uecker had the same birthday,” Jones said.
“It seemed like the right thing to do,” he said.
A driver's license left behind and a Brewers fan who, in his own way, still has a place in the ballpark.
“It will be the greatest team of my lifetime,” Jones said.