Evening star., 1953-03-15
Transfer Of Browns
And Braves Expected
To Get OK This Week
Continued From Page CID

Of dates. Pittsburgh's for those
of the Braves"
In some respects, the logical
solution would seem to be to
move the Braves to Baltimore
and the Browns to Milwaukee.
It may be difficult to picture
Baltimore, a port city on the
East Coast, with a Western
Division team, but the Browns
couldn't possibly play an Eastern
Division schedule.
AS Harridge said today, "I'm
sure that if st. Louis attempted
to join the Eastern Division,
Clark Griffith would object. And
you couldn't blame him.
"As an Eastern club, the
Browns in Baltimore would be
competitors of the Senators.
They would be playing at home.
only 40 minutes from Washing
ton by train, on the same dates
as the Senators. And two and a
half hours by train from Wash
ington-shorter from Baltimore
the Philadelphia Athletics
would be playing at home"
Fine Park i'm Milwaukee.
In Milwaukee the Braves would
be playing in one of the finest
parks in the country, and GER
tainly one of the newest. The
structure, just nearing compile
ton, has a seating capacity of
$4,000 with provisions for eXpan-
sion. Charlie Grimm, now man.
ager OF the Braves but former
manager and part owner of the
Brewers, rhapsodiZes when he
speaks of the Milwaukee Park.
"It's not only the last word in
comfort" Grimm told reporters
in Bradenton, "but the seating
capacity right now exceeds that
of Brooklyn. Cincinnati, Phila-
delphia. Pittsburgh. St. Louis,
Washington and Fenway Park in
Boston,"
While Perini owns the Milwau-
kee franchise. he doesn't own
the ball park. This belongs to
the county. However, the Brew
ers have a three-year contract to
use the park, it is understood,
which in effect is a contract with
the Braves.
Veeck Might Swap.
The suspicion is that Veeck
prefers Milwaukee to Baltimore
and would be eager to swap Balti-
more for the Wisconsin city. He
formerly was president of the
Brewers and won three pennants
there, once with Casey Stengel
managing for him. 1t is reported,
however, that Veeck is not too
popular in Milwaukee, although
when he visited Clearwater earli-
er this week he limited that Mil
waukee was interested in the
Browns.
"The city fathers talked to
me about switching from st.
Louis, Veeck said. Then, when
Fred Saigh got into trouble with
the income tax people and was
indicted. they turned their at
tention to the Cardinals. Prob
ably they figured the Cards were
ripe to leave town. But when
Anheuser-Busch bought the
Cards from Saigh they came
back to u.s."
Must Appease Dunn.
If his Browns are to supplant
the Orioles, Veeck must f1nan-
cially appease Dunn, according
to baseball figures here. But
they were not prepared to specu-
late on how royalty the Interna-
tional Leaguers would be re-
ceived either in Hartford or
Quebec. Perini, if successful in
moving the Braves to Milwaukee
and placing the Brewers in To-
ledo, might be asking for trouble.
it was deduced.
Toledo has not been a good
baseball town for years, as the
Detroit Tigers learned in costly
fashion when they operated the
club as a farm. Little James,
town. N. Y. of the Pony League
far outdrew Toledo during the
regime of John j. Jachym a few
years ago, causing Detroit to
abandon the Ohio city.
Perini told neWSmen today that