The successive version of this newsletter is counting the 50 greatest baseball clubs ever (A/k/a is the 50 best), and here is my new book ranking The best team in baseball. Today’s entries are concentrated on No. 26 of the Milwaukee Warriors in 1957.
Here is a quick boilerplate note attached to each story I have in this series:
I compiled the best 50 by analyzing 2,544 major league teams from 1903 to 2024. (The historical percentile for a given club is the percentage of its other 2,543 teams.)
Please refer to my book to explain my TS calculations. The book also offers a separate breakdown of the best and worst clubs every decade, along with a comprehensive overview of the best 50 (including a position-by-position lineup and more information than you will find in this newsletter), and a similar summary of the 10 worst teams of all time.
Now enter today’s profile.
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Team: 1957 Milwaukee Warriors
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Team Score: 87.001 points
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Ranking History: 26 of 2,544
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Historical percentile: 99.02%
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Seasonal record: 95-59 (.617)
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Season position: No. 1 in the National League
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Final identity: World Champion
The Braves had cash bleeding in 1952, not the cash that many Bostonians care about. That year, only 281,000 spectators entered the brave field, which was the catastrophic total that caused the owners Lou Perini Transfer his club to Milwaukee. This is the first move of a major league franchise in 50 years.
Perini was stunned by the huge crowd, and the result was that he was in the enthusiastic parade of 1953. Frederick Millerpresident of Milwaukee Brewery. Miller replied: “This may be the beginning of the championship.”
He is right. Milwaukee led the Grand Slams every season from 1953 to 1958, and the players responded. The Braves finished second in the National League in 1953, 1955 and 1956. They finally broke in 1957, led by a pair of young draggers, Henry Aaron and Eddie Mathewsand senior pitchers Warren Spahn.
August’s 10-game winning streak brings the Braves to the NL Comfort lead. They were eight games ahead of the second-place St. Louis Cardinals.
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Lew Burdette Misfortune memories of his brief tenure with the New York Yankees. In September 1950, minors called up young prospects, but manager Casey Stengel Never learned his name. “He yelled, ‘Hey, you go in and warm up.”
Burdette avenged the 1957 World Series, beating Stengel’s Yankees in Games 2, 5 and 7. His final victory was a 5-0 closing ceremony, which led to Milwaukee’s world title. Burdette is the first pitcher in 37 years to win three full games in the series. Henry Aaron, another hero of the Brave, hit three home runs and drove home seven times.
Burdette immediately started talking about a rematch. “We want to play them again next year,” he told reporters. “I’m sure we’ll win the pennant, but I’m not sure about them.”
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Henry Aaron goes bankrupt Baby Ruth1974 history, but he has always insisted that the most exciting moment of his career happened 17 years ago. Aaron won the first National League Flag with Milwaukee on September 23, 1957. “I never felt that way,” he said. His explosion inspired time Quote Exodus 8:17: “For Aaron stretched out his hand with his pole and defeated the dust of the earth.”
The 23-year-old outfielder ranked in the league (132) in home runs (44), locking in the NL’s Most Valuable Player Award. Third baseman Eddie Mathews himself is only 25 years old and is second in the club with 32 home runs and 94 RBIs. Matthews will be the only brave one to occupy the field in all the cities in the franchise: Boston, Milwaukee and Atlanta.
Red Schoendienst In mid-June, it received a box office of .310 from the New York Giants. The second baseman leads the league with 200 hits (122 for the Braves), but his 13 major league experience is just as important for the younger team in Milwaukee. “He must be the leader of that baseball club,” Aaron said.
Another major veteran is 36-year-old pitcher Warren Spahn, who has won at least 20 victories in seven seasons. He scored eight players in 1957 with a record of 21-11. Spahn is easily awarded the Cy Young Award, an award award in two major leagues that only one pitcher was awarded.
