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Damn Yankees
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Outmaneuvered, Veeck was chained to St. Louis for another year. The Browns would go on to lose 100 games, again, and draw less than 300,000. If Veeck couldn’t go to Milwaukee, he’d try somewhere, anywhere, to move the Browns. So at the end of the year he asked the lords for a move to Baltimore. They said no. Tired, desperate and out of options, Veeck sold the Browns. The new owners quickly got what Veeck was denied; a move to Baltimore.
As attendance in Milwaukee exploded for the Braves, so did the numbers of second year third baseman Eddie Mathews, who clobbered 47 home runs with a .302 average in 1953.