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unusual facts about Milwaukee Braves



1952 NBA draft

He won three NBA championships with the Celtics as well as the World Series in 1957 with the Atlanta Braves, becoming the only athlete to win world championships in both basketball and baseball.

Clay Dalrymple

Clay E. Dalrymple began his professional baseball career with the Sacramento Solons of the Pacific Coast League in 1956, and was obtained by the Milwaukee Braves before the 1959 season.

Ed Bailey

In December 1963, Bailey was traded along with Felipe Alou and Billy Hoeft to the Milwaukee Braves for Del Crandall, Bob Hendley and Bob Shaw.

Jim Constable

From 1957 through 1963, he played for the New York/San Francisco Giants, Cleveland Indians, Washington Senators and Milwaukee Braves.

John DeMerit

He was an outfielder over parts of 5 seasons (1957–1959, 1961–1962) with the Milwaukee Braves and New York Mets.

Ted Kazanski

In 1959, Kazanski was sent by Philadelphia along with Stan Lopata to the Milwaukee Braves in the same transaction that brought Gene Conley, Harry Hanebrink and Joe Koppe to the Phillies.

Ty Cline

Tyrone Alexander Cline (born June 15, 1939 in Hampton, South Carolina) is a former Major League baseball player, primarily a reserve outfielder and pinch-hitter for the Cleveland Indians (1960–62), Milwaukee Braves (1963–65), Chicago Cubs (1966), Atlanta Braves (1966–67), San Francisco Giants (1967–68), Montreal Expos (1969–70) and Cincinnati Reds (1970–71).

Willard Schmidt

On April 26, 1959, Schmidt became the first player in major league history to get hit by a pitch twice in the same inning by two different pitchers, when Bob Rush and Lew Burdette of the Milwaukee Braves hit him in the third inning of an 11–10 Cinicinnati's victory.

Wisconsin Highway 341

The Stadium Freeway, originally known as the South 44th Street Expressway for the street it would replace, was opened for traffic in 1953, just as the new Milwaukee County Stadium was opening to host the Milwaukee Braves of the National League of Major League Baseball.


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Lum Harris

Harris led Atlanta to the first-ever National League West Division championship in 1969 (the franchise's first postseason berth since losing the 1958 World Series as the Milwaukee Braves), but his Braves lost the National League Championship Series to the eventual world champion New York Mets.