Claim: Before 1953 the National League was divided into four Eastern teams  and four "Western" ones, Milwaukee Brave was part of the Western Club.
Evidence: In 1969, as a result of its expansion to 12 teams, the National League—which for its first 93 years had competed equally in a single grouping—was reorganized into two divisions of six teams (respectively named the National League East and West, although geographically it was more like North and South), with the division champions meeting in the National League Championship Series (an additional round of postseason competition) for the right to advance to the World Series. In 1994, the league was again reorganized, into three geographical divisions (East, West and Central, all currently with five teams; from 1994 to 1997 the West had one less team, and from 1998 to 2012, the Central had one more team).