Sausage Race

Donning over-sized foam sausage costumes that measure 7 ft 3 in (2.21 m) from the top of the head to the knees of the runners, the contestants start their race between the dugout and the baseline around third base.

On Sunday afternoon home games, the Sausages tag off to miniature versions of themselves, dubbed the Little Weenies, who finish the remainder of the race.

[3] On June 27, 1993, as the Sausages approached Milwaukee County Stadium on the scoreboard video, the left field doors swung open and – much to the surprise of players and fans – out came the larger-than-life mascots.

In 1994, the live Sausage race resumed on Sunday, May 29 – the day the Brewers retired Robin Yount's number 19 jersey – and became a fixture at every home game since.

In 2007, after a one-race tryout the previous year, The Chorizo rounded out the group of five Sausages fans see today.

[4] On July 9, 2003, Randall Simon, then the first baseman of the Pittsburgh Pirates, hit the head of a runner's costume with a baseball bat.

The tap did not hit the actual head of Mandy Block, who was wearing the Italian sausage costume, but it did knock her over, and she took the Hot Dog down with her.

During the first game, Simon's teammates playfully held him back as the sausages raced past their dugout, and manager Dusty Baker guarded the bat rack.

Simon, who played for the Phillies in 2006, was invited back and received loud cheers as he hit the fake sausages with a large plastic bat.

[8] At Wescott Elementary School in Northbrook, Illinois, They have five students every year wear their own sausage costumes based on that of the Brewers.

According to police, eyewitnesses saw someone wearing the costume leaving the Milwaukee Curling Club in suburban Cedarburg the evening of February 16, proceeding to visit several bars in the area and pose for photographs with patrons before disappearing.

[13] Ball players Mark Grace,[14] Pat Meares, Geoff Jenkins,[15] and Hideo Nomo[14] have raced as sausages.

[19] On August 20, 2021, late-night TV host Stephen Colbert made a guest appearance as part of his ‘Milwaukee Apology Tour’.