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Home of the Braves : : the battle for baseball in Milwaukee
| Title | Home of the Braves : : the battle for baseball in Milwaukee |
| Names | Steele, Patrick W. |
| Book Number | DBC08350 |
| Title Status | Available to Order |
| Medium | Digital Books |
| Download Link | Downloadable talking book. |
| Annotation | The author tells the story of what brought the Braves franchise to Milwaukee in 1953 and the forces that led ownership to relocate the team to Atlanta in 1965. Steele not only recounts the team's glory years in Milwaukee, but digs into the details behind the decision to move that left many baseball fans in Milwaukee heartbroken. Adult. |
| Length | 10 hours, 18 minutes |
| Audience Notes | Female narrator. |
| Local Subject | Nonfiction |
| Sports NonFiction - SPT | |
| Recreation - Athletic sports & games - 796 | |
| Sports, Recreation, Hobbies, Movies, etc - 790 | |
| Sports - Baseball - SPBA | |
| Wisconsin Authors - WIA | |
| Wisconsin - History - WIH | |
| LC Subject | History |
| Language | English |
| Contents | Foreword / by Bob Buege -- Acknowledgments -- Prologue -- "You keep the Brewers, we'll keep the Braves," 1945-1953 -- Home of the Braves, 1953-1954 -- Bush Leaguers, 1955-1957 -- The beginning of the end, 1958-1961 -- Something new, 1962-1963 -- Bringing down the curtain, 1964 -- Lame ducks, 1965 -- Milwaukee v. The Braves, 1966 -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Seasonal attendance following relocation. |
| Released | 2022 |
| Publication Info | Milwaukee : Wisconsin Talking Book and Braille Library, 2022. (Audio & Braille Literacy Enhancement) |
| Original Publication | Recorded from: Madison, Wisconsin : The University of Wisconsin Press, [2018] 9780299318109 |