Hank showed up at Maryvale Baseball Park and became team's unofficial mascot: 'He never met a fan — or really any human — he didn’t love.'

The Milwaukee Brewers announced Hank “the Ballpark Pup," the team’s unofficial mascot, passed away on Thursday, Sept. 12.

Hank the Ballpark Pup, who was the unofficial mascot of the Milwaukee Brewers, has died. Hank arrived at the team’s spring training facility in Maryvale as a stray.

Then, that's where Milwaukee Brewers legend Hank has gone. "The beloved Hank, 'The Ballpark Pup,' passed away earlier today," the Brewers shared in a news release Thursday night. The furry white dog was small,

The stray dog wandered into Brewers spring training in 2014, and the team brought him to

R.I.P. Hank the Dog It was a stadium security guard who gave Hank his name -- after Hall of Famer Hank Aaron -- in February 2014, when the Bichon Frisé mix wandered into Maryvale Baseball Park in Phoenix with his white fur so stained that a veterinarian who examined him surmised that he'd been run over by a car.