For 50 seasons from 1903-52, there were 16 teams in 10 cities across the Major League Baseball landscape.
On March 18, 1953, Braves owner Lou Perini changed that when he took his team to Milwaukee.
Baseball’s future had arrived.
Rumors swirled throughout that winter that Perini was intent on moving the Braves, who had fallen behind the Red Sox in Boston’s baseball pecking order. The Braves drew just 281,278 fans in 1952, less than a third of their attendance in 1950 and more than 800,000 fewer fans than the Red Sox.
“We had made up our mind that, regardless of if we had won the pennant (in 1952), we would go to Milwaukee next year,” Perini told The Boston Globe after the move was announced. “We finished out of the first division only once since 1948 and our attendance fell to 281,000.”
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