Milwaukee Brewers

Founded: 1969

Formerly known as: the Seattle Pilots[?], 1969. The franchise relocated to Milwaukee prior to the 1970 season.

Home ballpark: Miller Park[?], Milwaukee (capacity 42,500)

Uniform colors: Midnight Blue, White, and Gold

Logo design: The word "Brewers" in script superimposed over a baseball which itself is inside a circle with the word "MILWAUKEE" above and a pair of crossed hops ears below

League pennants won: 1982

World Series championships won: none

Franchise history

The team was purchased on April 1, 1970, by an ownership group headed by Milwaukee auto dealer Bud Selig. The team was still in spring training as the Seattle Pilots. The trucks carrying the team's equipment were sent to Salt Lake City, Utah from Arizona, where they were to receive instructionw whether to continue to Seattle or Milwaukee. The team was renamed the Brewers to honor Milwaukee's beer-brewing traditions. The team had six days to remove the Pilots logos from team uniforms and replace them with Brewers logos.

The story of the Pilots, and their move to Milwaukee, appears in greater detail at http://www.brandx.net/pilots/histindx (http://www.brandx.net/pilots/histindx).

The team was moved from the American League to the National League in 1998 during baseball's re-organization in order to even out the number of teams in both leagues.

The Selig family's ownership of the Brewers is the longest continuing ownership in the majors now (Wendy Selig, Bud's daughter, is now CEO).

Players of note

• Henry Aaron
• Hugh Duffy[?]
• Rollie Fingers
• Don Sutton[?]
• Robin Yount[?]

Current stars:

• Richie Sexson[?]

Not to be forgotten:

• Paul Molitor

Retired numbers:

• 4 Paul Molitor
• 19 Robin Yount[?]
• 34 Rollie Fingers
• 42 Jackie Robinson
• 44 Henry Aaron

Milwaukee Brewers official web site (http://milwaukee.brewers.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/mil/homepage/mil_homepage.jsp)