Ball from the uh the fan that caught it.

So those two artifacts have come back together again for the first time in this gallery since uh the bats had the ball into the stands in gate five.

1957 and 1982.

World Series Wisconsin brings together two generations of great baseball memories.

One chapter ended when the Braves left Milwaukee after the 1965 season, and a new one began when the Brewers came to town in 1970.

One of the things that we wanted to do in the exhibit is connect the the two stories, the uh Milwaukee Braves and the Milwaukee Brewers, which are different teams, different leagues, and uh different generations of fans.

And the way we tried to do that is in a couple of the star players.

Um I think this was a conscious decision on Bud Sealing's part in the early 70s to draw upon that legacy of the Milwaukee Braves players.

Um Crandall as the manager of the Brewers in 1972.

Uh Crandall had played for the Braves for uh at least a decade and was uh most of those years was an all-star, by some counts one of the best defensive catchers in the league.

When Aaron finished his uh chase of Ruth and and passed him in Atlanta, he was ready to move on and uh felt that coming back to Milwaukee made sense to him.

So uh Ben Sealy brought him back in uh 1975, and it was kind of interesting to see, you know, two of the big stars from the 50s from the Braves coming back together to uh to lead the brewers in the mid-70s.

The Brewers were still not a great team, but Aaron gave them a certain legitimacy.

In the exhibit, we connect the Milwaukee Braves and Milwaukee Brewers with two pieces of Henry Aaron's game-used equipment.

Here we have a 1976 home jersey he wore, along with a well-used batting helmet.

This helmet is very likely the one he was wearing at County Stadium on July 20th, 1976, when he hit his record home run number 75.

Hundreds of unique artifacts, eight Hall of Famers, two incredible seasons, and millions of memories.

Every 25 years, the World Series seems to come to Wisconsin.

World Series Wisconsin.

I think Cooperstown, but in Wisconsin.

Check their website at Wisconsin History.org/slash museum for more information and to view their video.

The Milwaukee County Historical Society is a great alternative if you can't make it to Madison.

Major League Baseball.

Braves, Brewers Baseball, looks at the local connection to Major League Baseball over the last 55 years.

Well, actually, the exhibit originated with an idea brought to us by the Wisconsin Historical Society.

They began their planning last year and realized uh after talking with a number of the collectors that there was just far too much material for them to include in a single exhibit that they hoped would focus on uh the uh Hall of Fame players from the 57 Braves and the 82 Brewers, and on those two World Series.

They found that there was a great deal of material related to Milwaukee as a community, their support for the team and the like, and they said it would be really terrific if we could find an institution to partner with.

At the same time, many of the collectors said while they appreciated the state historical society in Madison uh mounting an exhibit on the Braves and the Brewers, they thought it would be especially nice if a Milwaukee institution were involved.

So our approach has been a little bit broader in terms of taking a look at what Major League Baseball uh coming to the Milwaukee community meant to the community as a whole.

Uh the idea that we were finally in the big leagues after 50 years of minor league baseball with the minor league brewers at Borchard Field.

Milwaukee had made it.

It was no longer Bushville, as we would be called later by Casey Stengel.

Um, and the the way in which the community embraced the new uh major league team by providing everything from uh uh automobiles for the players to a great deal of complimentary uh beer and uh and other materials and the way in which the community itself, the people of the community supported the team uh achieving a National League attendance record in the first year.

All of those are the kinds of things that we've tried to capture in in this exhibit in Major League Milwaukee.

Well, the 50th and 25th anniversaries were the impetus for this exhibit.

What you're actually showing here is a history of baseball in the city of Milwaukee.

It really is.

We we start with uh at least a passing reference to Borchard Field to the old um American Association Brewers who had a an illustrious 50-year history from 1902 to 1952 here, and then move on to the idea that County Stadium is one of the first publicly funded stadiums in the United States, uh, became the uh the the bait, if you will, to uh bring Major League Baseball to Milwaukee with uh um uh Lou Perini gaining approval to move his Boston Braves uh suddenly in 1953.

Um if you build it, they will come.

And here were the Braves playing Major League Baseball and in County Stadium.

We see uh uniforms and baseballs, things like that in every exhibit, but you've got some things here that others don't have.

Maybe you could point out a couple of those.

We do indeed.

Uh one of my favorites is the uh big sign that said Braves Baseball Special.

It was mounted on the front of uh Milwaukee County Transit Bus.

Uh and what's best about the that particular exhibit is that there's a photo of the bus bearing the sign, and in the window of the bus, it says 15 cent cash fare only.

Um it suggests how how things have changed over a period of 50 years, at least how much more expensive uh a ride on the bus has gotten.

But there's some wonderful fan items in this exhibit.

Uh there's a skirt that uh woman made uh in 1957, embroidered the names of all of the Braves players on the skirt, and there's a wonderful photograph of her alongside the skirt, wearing the skirt and talking with a couple of the Braves players.

Um it's not unique to this exhibit, but another of the pieces that's especially interesting is the huge uh uh cutout of the uh the Brave figure that says welcome at the bottom.

They were attached to the lampposts uh downtown uh um during and after the uh the series, and uh um uh only a few have survived.

The historical society exhibit features both player and fan experiences and helps tell the story of baseball excitement, pride, struggle, and even disappointment in Milwaukee.

It also features original radio broadcasts of the 1957 World Series.

Running on Prince and Second Bay with one out.

The two-one pitch they swing and they drive back in the deep cutter going back by home for Bob Hazel.

This is not a look but don't touch exhibit like many might be.

What you actually have here is an opportunity for kids to have a hands-on experience.

We do.

Um we've tried to uh make the exhibit interesting, not just for adults, but to involve children.

There's uh uh an interactive display that allows uh kids to try on three different types of baseball mitts, a catcher's mid, a first baseman's mid and a regular fielder's glove.