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The Milwaukee Brewers announced game times for their 2007 schedule today. The Brewers will begin and end the 2007 season at Miller Park, marking the first time since 1994 that the Brewers have opened and closed the season in Milwaukee. It will also mark the first time since the opening of Miller Park that the Brewers have closed the regular season at home. Milwaukee will open the season at Miller Park for the second straight season when they take on the Los Angeles Dodgers on Monday, April 2 at 1:05 p.m. It will mark the club's 38th home opener and their 10th in the National League. The series against the Dodgers will kick off a six-game, seven day homestand. Following the three-game set with the Dodgers, April 2-4, Milwaukee will face the Chicago Cubs on Easter Weekend (April 6-8). Weekday Brewers home games will start at 7:05 p.m. with select mid-week matinees slated for 12:05 p.m. starts in April and May and 1:05 p.m. from June through September. Saturday home contests will begin at 6:05 p.m., with the exception of April 7 versus Chicago (N) which will start at 1:05 p.m. All Sunday home games will begin at 1:05 p.m. Milwaukee will host three 10-game homestands marking the longest of the '07 season. The first 10-game homestand will be April 30-May 9 against St. Louis (April 30-May 2), Pittsburgh (May 3-6) and Washington (May 7-9). The second 10-game homestand will take place May 28-June 6 against the Braves (May 28-30), Marlins (May 31-June 3) and Cubs (June 4-6). The final 10-game homestand will feature the Colorado Rockies (July 13-15), Arizona Diamondbacks (July 16-19) and San Francisco Giants (July 20-22). The longest road trip, a 10-game, 11-day trip, will take the Brewers to Chicago (June 29-July 1), Pittsburgh (July 2-5) and Washington (July 6-8).
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| Sat, May 17, 2008, 3:55 pm | | |
| Sun, May 18, 2008, 1:35 pm | | |
| Tue, May 20, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, May 21, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Thu, May 22, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Fri, May 23, 2008, 7:35 pm | | |
| Sat, May 24, 2008, 7:10 pm | | |
| Sun, May 25, 2008, 1:35 pm | | |
| Mon, May 26, 2008, 1:35 pm | | |
| Tue, May 27, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, May 28, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Thu, May 29, 2008, 12:05 pm | | |
| Fri, May 30, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Sat, May 31, 2008, 6:05 pm | | |
| Sun, June 1, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Mon, June 2, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Tue, June 3, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, June 4, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Fri, June 6, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Sat, June 7, 2008, 6:05 pm | | |
| Sun, June 8, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Tue, June 10, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, June 11, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Thu, June 12, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Fri, June 13, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Sat, June 14, 2008, 6:05 pm | | |
| Sun, June 15, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Tue, June 17, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Wed, June 18, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
| Thu, June 19, 2008, 1:05 pm | | |
| Fri, June 20, 2008, 7:05 pm | | |
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Did You Know
The '''Milwaukee Brewers''' are a Major League Baseball team based in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. They are in the Central Division of the National League. The team began in Seattle, Washington for one season before changing names and moving to Milwaukee. The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.
Franchise history
1966-69: The Search for a Milwaukee Franchise
After 12 years in Milwaukee, the Braves baseball club moved to Atlanta following the 1965 season. The Braves brought a World Series title to Milwaukee in 1957 when the club defeated the New York Yankees for the championship of baseball. The next season, the Braves lost to the Yankees in the 1958 World Series.
In an effort to prevent the relocation of the Milwaukee Braves to a larger television market, Braves minority owner Bud Selig, a Milwaukee-area car dealer, formed an organization named '''"Teams Inc."''' devoted to local control of the club. He successfully prevented the majority owners of the Braves from moving the club in 1964, but was unable to do more than delay the inevitable. The Braves relocated to Atlanta after the 1965 season, and Teams Inc. turned its focus to returning Major League Baseball to Milwaukee.
game played in Milwaukee.
Selig doggedly pursued this goal, attending owners meetings in the hopes of securing an expansion franchise. Selig changed the name of his group to '''"Milwaukee Brewers Baseball Club Inc."''' The "Brewers" name, honoring Milwaukee's beer-brewing tradition, also was traditional for Milwaukee baseball teams going back into the 19th century. The city had hosted a major league team by that name in 1901, a charter member of the American League, which relocated at the end of that season to become the St. Louis Browns (now the Baltimore Orioles). From 1902 through 1952, a minor league Milwaukee Brewers club in the American Association had been so successful that it lured the Braves from Boston. Selig himself had grown up watching that minor league team at Borchert Field and intended his new franchise to follow in that tradition.
To demonstrate there still was support for big-league ball in Milwaukee, Selig's group contracted with the Chicago White Sox to host nine White Sox home games at Milwaukee County Stadium in 1968. A 1967 exhibition game between the White Sox and Minnesota Twins had attracted more than 51,000 spectators, and Selig was convinced the strong Milwaukee fan base would demonstrate the city would provide a good home for a new club.
The experiment was staggeringly successful—those nine games drew 264,297 fans. In Chicago that season, the Sox drew 539,478 fans to their remaining 58 home games. In just a handful of games, the Milwaukee crowds accounted for nearly ''one-third'' of the total attendance at White Sox games. In light of this success, Selig agreed County Stadium would host Sox home games again the next season.
Selig went into the 1968 owners meetings with high hopes, believing this fan support lent legitimacy to his quest for a Milwaukee franchise, but these hopes were dashed when National League franchises were awarded to San Diego (the Padres) and Montreal (the Expos), and American League franchises were awarded to Kansas City (the Royals) and Seattle (the Pilots). That last franchise, however, would figure very prominently in Selig's future.
Having failed to gain a major league franchise for Milwaukee through expansion, Selig turned his efforts to purchasing and relocating an existing club. His search began close to home, with the White Sox themselves. The 1969 White Sox schedule in Milwaukee was expanded to include 11 home games (one against every other franchise in the American League at the time). Although those games were attended by slightly fewer fans (198,211 fans, for an average of 18,019) than in 1968, they represented a greater percentage of the total White Sox attendance than the previous year—over one-third of the fans who went to Sox home games in 1969 did so at County Stadium (in the remaining 59 home dates in Chicago, the Sox drew 391,335 for an average of 6,632 per game). According to Selig, he had a handshake agreement with Allyn to purchase the Pale Hose and move them north. The American League, unwilling to surrender Chicago to the National League, vetoed the sale, and Allyn sold the franchise to his brother John.
Frustrated in these efforts, Selig shifted his focus to another American League team, the expansion Seattle Pilots.
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