1953 Milwaukee Braves season

MLB yearly infobox-pre1969 alt‎
name = Milwaukee Braves
season = 1953
misc =

current league = National League
y1 = 1876
Uniform
ballpark = Milwaukee County Stadium
y4 = 1953
city = Milwaukee, Wisconsin
y5 = 1953
owners = Louis R. Perini
general manager = John Quinn
managers =Charlie Grimm
television = none
radio = WTMJ
WEMP
(Earl Gillespie, Bob Kelly)|

The 1953 Milwaukee Braves season saw the return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee for the first time since 1901, when the Milwaukee Brewers played before moving to St. Louis and becoming the Browns. With attendance and interest in Boston very low, team owner Louis Perini moved the team to Milwaukee, Wisconsin just weeks before the start of the season. In their first season in the Badger State, the Braves finished in second place in the National League standings, with a 92-62 record, thirteen games behind the NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.

Regular season

eason standings

Roster

Relief pitchers

Farm system [Johnson, Lloyd, and Wolff, Miles, ed., "The Encyclopedia of Minor League Baseball". Durham, N.C.: Baseball America, 1997]

* Class AAA: Toledo Sox (American Association; Tommy Holmes and George Selkirk, managers)
* Class AA: Atlanta Crackers (Southern Association; Gene Mauch, manager)
* Class A: Jacksonville Braves (Sally League; Ben Geraghty, manager)
* Class A: Lincoln Chiefs (Western League; Lou Finney and Walt Linden, managers)
* Class B: Wichita Falls Spudders (Big State League; Whitey Wietelmann, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class B: Evansville Braves (Illinois-Indiana-Iowa League; Bob Coleman, manager)
* Class B: Hagerstown Braves (Piedmont League; Dutch Dorman, Jimmy Zinn and Billy Jurges, managers)
* Class C: Modesto Reds (California League; Guy Fletcher, manager)
* Class C: Eau Claire Bears (Northern League; Rex Carr, manager)
* Class C: Quebec Braves (Provincial League; George McQuinn, manager) — LEAGUE CHAMPION
* Class D: Sandersville Wacos (Georgia State League; Gabby Grant, Parnell Ruark, Luscius Morgan and Julian Morgan, managers)
* Class D: Wellsville Braves (PONY League; Ted Sepkowski, manager)
* Class D: Appleton Papermakers (Wisconsin State League; Travis Jackson, manager)

References

* [http://www.baseball-reference.com/teams/MLN/1953.shtml 1953 Milwaukee Braves season at Baseball Reference]