Milwaukee has had a major league baseball team for all but five years since 1953, the year the Braves left Boston for the Midwest. After a short gap from 1965-69, the Seattle Pilots moved to town in 1970, became the Brewers, and the rest is history.
However, 1970 was not the first season that a professional baseball team called the Brewers was operating in Milwaukee. In fact, it wasn’t even the first major league team called the Milwaukee Brewers. A quick history lesson: in 1901, the American League, in its inaugural season, featured a Milwaukee Brewers team managed by the 34-year-old future Hall of Famer Hugh Duffy.