. Aaron led the team with 196 hits, 109 runs scored, .326 batting average and 95 runs batted in, and Mathews led the team with 31 home runs. Copyright 2023 Trading Card Database LLC In 1958 the Braves repeated as pennant winners but fell to the Yankees in the World Series, four games to three. There is one no-hitter which the team allowed one run, thrown by Vic Willis in 1899. If it could not do that, then America would have to face a harsh reality: that its past-time would be forever tainted by discrimination and bigotry towards its own citizens.118. Thar's Joy in Braveland : The 1957 Milwaukee Braves - Google Books World Series Champions (2nd championship) Scored 4.98 RPG (1st) Allowed 3.95 RPG (2nd) Team & Player Stats Roster Schedule & Results Splits. Braves All-Time Team - Baseball Egg Hank Aaron (1953). - Comments Phoenix, AZ 85004 1957 World Series (4-3): Milwaukee Braves (N.L.) 16. http://www.baseball-reference.com/minors/league.cgi?code=GAFL&class=A. 121. When owner Lou Perini moved his National League baseball club from Boston to Milwaukee in March 1953, the Braves became the first major league ball club to change cities in half a century. 1st in National League. When the now-Atlanta Braves began centralizing all spring-training operations at West Palm Beach, they built a new clubhouse, lockers and three extra fields for Braves farm clubs129 and incorporated the five teams and 125150 players remaining at Bravesville. Frankly, I cant recall any incidents that might contradict that view.80, Hemond regards the Braves of the 1950s and the camp at Waycross as something special. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Statistics | Baseball-Reference.com Gautreau was a legendary figure at Waycross, acknowledged as an expert in the scouting and training of young hopefuls and famed for his good nature and generosity. The Braves led the league almost until July and wound up in second behind the Brooklyn Dodgers. Except for the bewildered Puerto Rican. Sometimes, it was hard to figure out who had your back and who was trying to put a knife into it.92, At times there was no one to break the ice. Bill 44 never did become law. 124. 104. I was about number 340.56, Eventually the organization decided to issue standard gray practice uniforms to all players. 41. 82. - Contributors One man he helped was Rico Carty, a native of the Dominican Republic. . . Georgia Racial Bill Threatens Braves Base at Waycross, Milwaukee Sentinel, 14 February, 1957, 15. Girls from the local high school and other young women, drawn by the mystery of burnished strangers from afar, were regulars as well. Georgia Racial Bill Threatens Braves Base at Waycross.. Copyright 1999- - Inserts and Related Sets When the municipality replaced the center with a more modern facility some years later, the old Braves training grounds were incorporated into an expanding Waycross Ware County Industrial Park. And then they shut it down.130. [11] McHale would serve as the Braves' general manager and, later, team president, through the club's final years in Milwaukee and its 1966 move to Atlanta, before his dismissal that year. Versions of a bill often called the racial billdesigned to prohibit integration in athletic competitions110 were introduced in both 1955 and 1956, without success. Of French-Canadian ancestry, Walter Doc Gautreau had spent five years with the Montreal Royals at the end of his career and was still conversant in French. 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They were Austin, Texas; Boise, Idaho; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; Eau Claire, Wisconsin; Jacksonville, Florida; McCook, Nebraska; Midland, Texas; and Wellsville, New York. Louis J. Fusk, Quebec Chronicle Telegraph, 15 April 1955. 9. 66. Telephone conversation with Jim Fanning, 3 February 2010. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 46. I strike out. 1957 Milwaukee Braves - Roster - The Baseball Cube Activities included movies three nights a week, ping pong, shuffleboard, horse shoe pits, and a juke box.33 Curfew was set at 11:00 P.M. Pat Jordan, in his autobiographical A False Spring, describes the spring of 1960, which he spent at Waycross. Milwaukee Braves - 1957 Player Stats | RetroSeasons.com Telephone conversation with Roger L. Williams, 9 February 2010. Ken Fenster, e-mail communication with coauthors. 5. Register now to join us on July 5-9, 2023, in Chicago. Led by the bats of National League Most Valuable Player Henry Aaron and slugging third baseman Eddie Mathews and the Big Three pitching trio (Cy Young Award winner Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, and Bob Buhl) the Braves won 95 games. 39. - Trivia Writing some years later with reference to the Minnesota Twins, he claimed that for the country to be considered fully integrated, baseballs spring training camps needed to be integrated as well. Local merchants showered the ballplayers with gifts, from dry-cleaning service to fermented beverages. Click here for additional help. Cronkite School at ASU There was nothing to worry about.39, The cafeteria-like mess hall, owned and operated by the Braves, was further north and near the swamp. ISBN (e-book) 978-1-933599-72-4, $9.99, You talk about destiny, well, you cant rule that out. 93. Telephone conversation with Roland Hemond, 5 February 2010. We have built four fine practice diamonds at Waycross and our housing for the kids sent there to work out is one of the finest anywhere. 43 Willie ORee, a young black man from Canada who earned a brief tryout at Waycross before ultimately making his mark in hockey, concurred. Other minority players in camp that year included Humberto Robinson, Ike Quarterman, and John Charles, the brother of future Mets third baseman Ed Charles, who was serving his military call-up at the time. Aaron with Wheeler, I Had a Hammer, 53. Here again, decisions tended to reflect community standards. The Braves were good that way, he mused, they never struck me as prejudiced.79, Such was Roland Hemonds recollection as well. They were thrilled when I greeted them, just like some of the Latin players appreciate it when some of the baseball people speak Spanish to them when they hit the country.101, He believes his ability to help French-speaking players made a difference because it gave a more personal feel to their first professional baseball experience.102, Waycross provided Pichs introduction to professional baseball, and with his limited English and the strangeness of the environment, he considers it perhaps the toughest of all his baseball challenges. Contact SABR, https://sabr.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/04/1957-Braves-cover-400x600.jpg, /wp-content/uploads/2020/02/sabr_logo.png, SABR Digital Library: Thars Joy in Braveland! Milwaukee Journal, 15 February 1957. This article was written byBill Young - Daniel Papillon, This article was published in The National Pastime: Baseball in the Peach State (Atlanta, 2010), Other than being eaten alive and shot at, Waycross was great. 1957 Milwaukee Braves Statistics 1956 Season 1958 Season Record: 95-59-1, Finished 1st in National League ( Schedule and Results ) Postseason: Won World Series (4-3) over New York Yankees Manager: Fred Haney (95-59-1) General Manager: John Quinn Ballpark: County Stadium Attendance: 2,215,404 (1st of 8) 69. The 1958 Milwaukee Braves season was the sixth in Milwaukee and the 88th overall season of the franchise. By 1959, Waycross was hosting upward of 380 young men, with an average age of 20 years, and the number of clubs training there had risen to eight.50 Of the 30 players on the 1957 Milwaukee Braves roster, more than half had come through "this camp or its predecessor at Myrtle Beach, S.C."51 Detail page for Roster Milwaukee 1957 Braves Free Sim Baseball League He is of interest to the authors because for seven years he played second base with the Quebec Braves and was perhaps the most popular player in the history of the club. Each building was supervised by a manager and a scout. One was for blacks, the other for whites. The Braves reached the pinnacle of their sport in 1957, polishing off Casey Stengels New York Yankees to capture the World Series. Madison, WI: Wisconsin Historical Society Press, 2009. 1958 Milwaukee Braves Roster National League ( NL) Team Record: 92-62 Finished 1st in the NL Attendance: 1,971,015, Avg. 126. Baseball was a stepping stone for a great life, he says today, perhaps ambiguously.93. SABR members will get discounted rates for all Digital Library publications. It was not a pleasant experience. Please use the Site Contact Form. 1958 Milwaukee Braves baseball Roster on StatsCrew.com Phoenix, AZ 85004 While neither lasted more than a few games, they were, according to the St. Petersburg Times, the first of their race to appear in the Class D Georgia-Florida Baseball League.14 However, Lew Jones, a Milwaukee signee, also claimed this honor.