A NOTE FROM BRIAN BRAKEMAN
After more than 40 years and well over 3,000 pages, it seems time to draw the
curtain on the Brakeman Report. It has been a labor of (mostly) love, but its
objective from the start--identifying and forecasting the participants in the
state meet--has been rendered unnecessary by the explosion of data and data
analysts on the Internet. It is a decision, I make with some misgivings since I
have always enjoyed the process which lead up to the report. Still, it will now
be the first January since 1971 that I will be able to really enjoy without the
specter of hard-to-make deadlines.
It has been a privilege to work with the various constituencies within the
wrestling community which I hope to maintain in the future. I would like to
thank all the folks who have given me so much help over the years, particularly
the three principal typists--the late Arnetta Moore, the superstar for over two
decades, Kim (Fiftyfingers) Manning, and my own first cousin, the long suffering
Nancy Dimitris. And, in addition, I truly have appreciated all my readers and
the many comments (both positive and negative) that they have so often provided.