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NeoBrake Systems, Inc., one of the original independent North American brake remanufacturers and formulator of world-class asbestos-free brakes, announced today its 30th anniversary in business.
NeoBrake no sooner opened its doors in October of 1988 when an injured Los Angeles Dodgers’ baseball player named Kirk Gibson hobbled to the batter’s box and incomprehensibly hit a walk-off home run to lift the Dodgers over the Oakland A’s in game one of the 1988 World Series.
“It was an incredible time,” recalls NeoBrake founder, president, and CEO Rick Ballew. “We had just gotten things off the ground, then Kirk Gibson hits this home run when he can barely walk. I took it as a good sign, though, since we’re both from Michigan!”
Thirty years later, the Dodgers are making another playoff run, and NeoBrake is hitting home runs of their own. Ballew first came to Milwaukee in 1980...