In July of 1953, the new stadium hosted the Ice Capades for nine consecutive nights.In 1978, the Grand Slam Jam brought in Heart, Journey, Cheap Trick, and Ted Nugent.County Stadium also hosted the Kool Jazz Festival every year from 1976 through 1980.Other musical stars to perform at County Stadium included Simon and Garfunkel, Marvin Gaye, Al Green, The Temptations, Smokey Robinson, B.B. The Brewers moved to Toledo, where they became the next incarnation of the Toledo Mud Hens. Following the concert, the Brewers complained that the fans destroyed the field.
A state of the art Miller High scoreboard was located in right field with a Longines clock on top.
"I think my baseball career would have been spent riding buses, not jets, if you know what I mean."
While the Brewers were still holding on to the Wild Card lead, the division was never seriously challenged for the remainder of the year.The Brewers still finished with a winning record in 2012, going 83–79, finishing in 3rd place in the NL Central behind Cincinnati and St. Louis.This chart is a brief overview of the various Milwaukee professional baseball clubs:Under the circumstances, the Brewers' 1970 season was over before it started, and they finished 65–97.
Even before it was completed, the new "Milwaukee County Municipal Stadium" drew the interest of major league clubs. The game resulted in a 6–3 victory for the NL. County Stadium became known for its mascot Bernie the Brewer, his beer barrel, chalet and slide … Although those games were attended by slightly fewer fans (198,211 fans, for an average of 18,019) they represented a greater percentage of the total White Sox attendance than the previous year - over one-third of the fans who went to Sox home games in 1969 did so at County Stadium (in the remaining 59 home dates in Chicago, the Sox drew 391,335 for an average of 6,632 per game). By mid September, however, they had lost their division lead to the St. Louis Cardinals and were trailing behind the Pittsburgh Pirates in the National League Wild Card race.The Brewers came into 2017 with minimal expectations other than continuing their rebuilding of the team.
Get your hands on the perfect souvenir for every baseball or football fan in your life! The Brewers still stayed in the race for the Wild Card game, but fell short of the postseason and the NL Central Division, with an 86–76 record, which still was a surprise for many in the baseball community.Along with their team accomplishments, the Brewers had many individual achievements from their players. The thing that turned him away from that career path, he explained, was when he went to baseball camp and came face to face with a real-life fastball that he could never achieve. The team surprised many by finishing the month of April at .500, with encouraging performances from Eric Thames, Chase Anderson, Jesus Aguilar, and Travis Shaw. The Brewers finished 2002 even worse, finishing with a dismal 56–106 record, 41 games out of first place, the worst record in franchise history.On the field, the Brewers did have several individual performances that gave fans some hope for the coming seasons.
However, they were still in the playoff hunt, leading in the Wild Card, but were still 5 games behind the division-leading Cubs going into the final month of the season. I live near the stadium where the Cardinals and Marlins have spring training and they really pack them in for 4 weeks every spring. "I've got enough of that already.
The Brewers started 2018 well, helped by a stretch in May where they went 19–8 to put themselves on top in the NL Central division, taking advantage, once again, of early struggles for both the Cubs and Cardinals.
Major League Baseball didn't force Braun to surrender his 2011 National League MVP award.To the surprise of no one outside Seattle (Schultz and Milkes actually thought they could finish third in the newly formed AL West), the Pilots were terrible.
The Brewers continued their hot run in the NLDS, against the Colorado Rockies, sweeping them in three games to advance to the NLCS, also achieving at least 12 wins in a row for only the second time in their history.
The St. Louis Browns, who had played in Milwaukee in 1901, the inaugural season of the American League, applied for permission to relocate back to the city they had left half a century before. The Boston Braves, the parent club of the Brewers, blocked the proposed move. Credit: Gray and company July 19, 2015