@ammo posted:Many of the old timers will say when the Braves traded Lew Burdette. He went 3 - 0 with 3 complete games in the 1957 World Series and went 1 - 2 in the 1958 World Series. He also hit a homer in the '58 Series. Braves traded him to the Cards in 1963.
I remember when the entire team was "traded", to Atlanta in 1966. I remember Braves fans crying " Don't take my Mattress!", a name fans lovingly gave Eddie Mathews. News outlets said the move to Atlanta, in 1966, was due to declining attendance. The owners also had wanted to move the team in 1964, for the same reasons, but the lease with Milwaukee County Stadium did not expire until after the 1965 season. A bunch of Chicago businessmen supposedly, were the Braves owners, back then. That figures.
