By ADAM ECOM Milwaukee is a baseball city. It has always been a baseball city. It just took a while for the rest of the country to notice. How a City Lost a Team and Built One From Scratch Milwaukee had baseball before the Brewers. The original Milwaukee Braves arrived in 1953 — the first franchise relocation in fifty years — and the city went absolutely berserk. County Stadium sold out. The Braves won the World Series in 1957. Hank Aaron was there. Warren Spahn was there. Eddie Mathews was... Read more...