Milwaukee Braves: A Baseball Eulogy

Rating:
Summary: A Legendary Baseball Team
Review: Although I was 10 when the Braves absconded to Atlanta therefore was too young to remember the glory years, this is a wonderful book about another time and place in history. By reading this book, you feel like you were apart of it. The writing is outstanding. Even though I wasn't born when the Braves moved to Milwaukee, you get goose bumps reading about the day the National League approved the move to Milwaukee and the celebration thereafter, the glory years, breaking attendance records, a world championship and all that went with it. You seethe when the rumors of the Atlanta move started and the transfer of the franchise takes place. The book captures the love between the Braves Baseball Club and the Wisconsin fans. It summarizes life in the 50's, a more innocent way of life that will never pass this way again. For those of you who want to read about what pro sports should be about, this book is a must.

Rating:
Summary: A Legendary Baseball Team
Review: Although I was 10 when the Braves absconded to Atlanta therefore was too young to remember the glory years, this is a wonderful book about another time and place in history. By reading this book, you feel like you were apart of it. The writing is outstanding. Even though I wasn't born when the Braves moved to Milwaukee, you get goose bumps reading about the day the National League approved the move to Milwaukee and the celebration thereafter, the glory years, breaking attendance records, a world championship and all that went with it. You seethe when the rumors of the Atlanta move started and the transfer of the franchise takes place. The book captures the love between the Braves Baseball Club and the Wisconsin fans. It summarizes life in the 50's, a more innocent way of life that will never pass this way again. For those of you who want to read about what pro sports should be about, this book is a must.

Rating:
Summary: A Look at Baseball's "Main Street" in the 1950s
Review: Far too many story-tellers of baseball in the 1950s seem to believe that the drama begins and ends with the subway ride between Brooklyn and the Bronx. What this view misses is that some of the very best ball was played some 1,000 miles to the west at the Milwaukee County Stadium.

The Fifties was perhaps baseball's last great decade before expansion teams, artificial turf and indoor play changed its shape and parameters. And Milwaukee was the most exciting city to watch the national past time in those days, where the local burghers pushed the Braves to the top of the attendance standings every season from 1953 to 1958. Much larger markets like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago simply could not keep up.

Bob Buege captures this remarkable phenomenon in a series of tight, colorful anecdotes capturing the spirit of this team and its city. His emphasis is less on historical analysis and more on giving the reader a "feel" for the era.

All that is wanting here is perhaps a bit more detail about the franchise and its player and a better explanation of the circumstances leading to the team's flight to Atlanta.

Overall, this book is essential for any fan who wishes to understand some of the greatest baseball of baseball's greatest decade.

Rating:
Summary: A Look at Baseball's "Main Street" in the 1950s
Review: Far too many story-tellers of baseball in the 1950s seem to believe that the drama begins and ends with the subway ride between Brooklyn and the Bronx. What this view misses is that some of the very best ball was played some 1,000 miles to the west at the Milwaukee County Stadium.

The Fifties was perhaps baseball's last great decade before expansion teams, artificial turf and indoor play changed its shape and parameters. And Milwaukee was the most exciting city to watch the national past time in those days, where the local burghers pushed the Braves to the top of the attendance standings every season from 1953 to 1958. Much larger markets like New York, Philadelphia and Chicago simply could not keep up.

Bob Buege captures this remarkable phenomenon in a series of tight, colorful anecdotes capturing the spirit of this team and its city. His emphasis is less on historical analysis and more on giving the reader a "feel" for the era.

All that is wanting here is perhaps a bit more detail about the franchise and its player and a better explanation of the circumstances leading to the team's flight to Atlanta.

Overall, this book is essential for any fan who wishes to understand some of the greatest baseball of baseball's greatest decade.

Rating:
Summary: One of the best baseball books I have ever read!!!
Review: This is one of the best books I have read about baseball in the 1950's and 1960's. I am not old enough to have seen the Milwaukee Braves, but because of Buege's book, I feel like I was there at County Stadium with Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn and Eddie Mathews. I loved it!

Rating:
Summary: One of the best baseball books I have ever read!!!
Review: This is one of the best books I have read about baseball in the 1950's and 1960's. I am not old enough to have seen the Milwaukee Braves, but because of Buege's book, I feel like I was there at County Stadium with Hank Aaron and Warren Spahn and Eddie Mathews. I loved it!