You don't have to convince me that Milwaukee is a major league city, especially when it comes to sports.
Today, the staff at bleacherreport.com takes note and calls Milwaukee a "Top Five Major League Underdog Town." In a second in a series of articles about "the greatest underdog venues in U.S. pro sports," bleacherreport.com says, "Milwaukee is a small market, Rust Belt town, reinvented, but still misunderstood. It's much more than its beer-town reputation suggests, always with something to prove."
It continues, "As Rust Belt cities go, Milwaukee is more prosperous than most. Their skyline is dominated by new shapes, more glass and steel than brick and stucco. Their lakefront glistens with Calatrava's new wing at the Milwaukee Art Museum. There are vibrant retail districts in and near Downtown. The Midwest Airlines Center is a world class convention and exhibition facility in close proximity to their beautiful Downtown arena, the Bradley Center."
Read the full post here.
A life-long and passionate community leader and Milwaukeean, Jeff Sherman is a co-founder of OnMilwaukee.
He grew up in Wauwatosa and graduated from Marquette University, as a Warrior. He holds an MBA from Cardinal Stritch University, and is the founding president of Young Professionals of Milwaukee (YPM)/Fuel Milwaukee.
Early in his career, Sherman was one of youngest members of the Greater Milwaukee Committee, and currently is involved in numerous civic and community groups - including board positions at The Wisconsin Center District, Wisconsin Club and Marcus Center for the Performing Arts. He's honored to have been named to The Business Journal's "30 under 30" and Milwaukee Magazine's "35 under 35" lists.
He owns a condo in Downtown and lives in greater Milwaukee with his wife Stephanie, his son, Jake, and daughter Pierce. He's a political, music, sports and news junkie and thinks, for what it's worth, that all new movies should be released in theaters, on demand, online and on DVD simultaneously.
He also thinks you should read OnMilwaukee each and every day.
