Borchert Field Borchert Field was a baseball park in Milwaukee , Wisconsin . It was the home field for several professional baseball clubs for most of the years from 1888 through 1952 . The park was built on a rectangular block bounded by North 7th and 8th Streets , and Chambers and Burleigh Streets in Milwaukee . Home plate was positioned at one end with the outfield bounded by the outer fence , making fair territory itself home - plate shaped . This was a design used by a number of ballparks in the late 19th and early 20th centuries when they were confined to a block that was too narrow to allow the foul lines to parallel the streets . The best known example of this design probably would be the Polo Grounds in New York City . Baseball . Originally known as Athletic Park , the park opened for baseball in 1888 During winter it was flooded and served as an ice hockey rink . The ballfield replaced the Wright Street Grounds . ( Podoll , p . 46 ) The ballpark operated as the home of the Milwaukee Creams of the Western League , later renamed the Brewers . The Creams / Brewers played there through the 1894 season . The ballfield was also sublet to the Milwaukee Brewers club of the major league American Association for the last part of the 1891 season , replacing the disbanded Cincinnati Kelly ' s Killers . 1891 was the last year of the AA as a major . The AA merged into the National League for 1892 , and the Milwaukee franchise was dropped . The Western League version of the Brewers left Athletic Park and opened the Lloyd Street Grounds in 1895 , continuing to play there until they became a major league club in 1901 as part of the American League , and then transferred to St . Louis Browns in 1902 . A new minor league version of the American Association formed in 1902 , including a new Milwaukee Brewers club . Meanwhile , another new minor league club , the Creams , began play in a new version of the Western League . The Creams retained the lease on the Lloyd Street property , so the Brewers re - opened their 1887 - 1894 ballpark , initially calling it Brewer Field , although the name Athletic Park would endure until 1930 . Milwaukee was too small to support two ballclubs , and the Western League entry folded after 1903 . The Western League and the AA formed a healthy rivalry , and would maintain business relations through the years , until the Western circuit folded after the 1937 season . The AA Brewers would play for 51 seasons before displaced by the Milwaukee Braves . Athletic Park / Brewer Field was renamed Borchert Field at the start of the 1930 season ( Podoll , p . 228 ) in honor of previous owner Otto Borchert , who had died three years earlier , on April 27 , 1927 , at a baseball dinner that was being broadcast live on the radio at the time ( Podoll , p . 218 ) . During the 1920s , the ballpark had been unofficially dubbed " Borchert ' s Orchard " by the media ( Podoll , p . 189 ) . Borchert Field was also home to Milwaukee ' s short - lived entries in the Negro Leagues and the All - American Girls Professional Baseball League , the Milwaukee Bears and Milwaukee Chicks . The Chicks won a pennant in their only year of operation . Bill Veeck . One of the more colorful times for the stadium occurred during the early 1940s when Bill Veeck owned the team . The " PT Barnum of Baseball " brought an element of whimsy and marketing to the park , including fan giveaways of livestock , butter and vegetables , and staging morning games for third - shift wartime workers . According to his own autobiography , " Veeck - As in Wreck " , he claimed to have installed a screen to make the right field target a little more difficult for left - handed pull hitters of the opposing team . The screen was on wheels , so any given day it might be in place or not , depending on the batting strength of the opposing team . There was no rule against that activity as such , so he got away with it . . . until one day when he took it to an extreme , rolling it out when the opponents batted , and reeling it back when the Brewers batted . Veeck reported that the league passed a rule against it the very next day . It has been speculated that the story was made up by Veeck ; research by two members of the Society for American Baseball Research revealed no evidence of either a movable fence or any gear ( pulleys , etc . ) required for it to work . Veeck would later employ these fence - moving shenanigans at Cleveland Stadium when he owned the Cleveland Indians in the late 1940s . In that same book Veeck wrote : " Borchert Field , an architectural monstrosity , was so constructed that the fans on the first - base side of the grandstand couldn ' t see the right fielder , which seemed perfectly fair in that the fans on the third - base side couldn ' t see the left fielder . ' Listen , ' I told them . ' This way you ' ll have to come back twice to see the whole team . ' " Veeck ' s comments referred to the exceptionally high corners , which could theoretically hide the closest outfielder from a given spectator ' s view at times . Football . The Milwaukee Badgers , which played in the National Football League from 1922 to 1926 , staged its home games at Borchert Field . Borchert Field was also the host to the first Green Bay Packers game held in Milwaukee - a 10 - 7 loss to the New York Giants on Oct . 1 , 1933 . Later years . Borchert Field was too small to accommodate Major League Baseball . Milwaukee ' s city fathers , looking to attract a Major League franchise ( the majors had flirted with a return to Milwaukee since Veeck had attempted to move the St . Louis Browns back to Milwaukee ) , built Milwaukee County Stadium to replace Borchert Field . It was intended that the Brewers would play in County Stadium in the 1953 season , but early that year the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee , so the final season of baseball at Borchert Field also turned out to be the last season of Brewers minor league baseball . The former site of the stadium ( and the entire block ) is now fully occupied by Interstate 43 , Milwaukee ' s major north - south arterial .