Brewers’ Move To N.L. Reportedly Approved

Thu., Nov. 6, 1997

New York Times

The Milwaukee Brewers, as expected, are moving to the National League.

Major League Baseball’s executive council made that move official Wednesday, a high-ranking official of another team said, by voting unanimously to make the Brewers the National League’s 16th team for the 1998 season.

The Brewers, who have played in the American League since 1970, will become the sixth team in the N.L. Central Division, joining Houston, Pittsburgh, St. Louis, Cincinnati and the Chicago Cubs.

The West and East divisions will each have five teams.

The Brewers’ move will trigger two other changes: the Detroit Tigers going from the A.L. East to the A.L. Central, taking the Brewers’ spot, and the expansion Tampa Bay Devil Rays from the A.L. West to the A.L. East.

Once it was decided that only one team would change leagues, the Kansas City Royals were given first choice to be that team.

Milwaukee was once a National League city. The Braves, between Boston and Atlanta, played there from 1953 through 1965.

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