Borchert Field, home of the
original Milwaukee Brewers
baseball team, now the
neighborhood of DMZ Gardens
Yesterday, Pat and I with the help of our friend Dawn planted a tree in the DMZ Orchard garden in honor of a friend who will be turning seventy soon. It was a gala apple tree. A tree was a birthday gift suggested by our friend’s husband who said she loved trees. The DMZ Orchard garden is one of the latest DMZ gardens planted by our friends Dawn and Marna.
Tonight on the local news I saw a group of neighborhoods gathered around the second DMZ garden to take against the street violence that takes place in the neighborhoods around the DMZ garden. One homicide this year was right at the corner of the garden. I was good to see the neighborhood gather at the garden to take a stand to stop the violence.
The neighborhood around the DMZ gardens is called Borchert Field. Borchert Field was the home of the first professional baseball park in Milwaukee. It was the home of the original Milwaukee Brewers minor league team until a new baseball park, Milwaukee County Stadium was built in 1953. The new stadium at first was built to accommodate the Milwaukee Brewers minor league team but quickly became the home of the Milwaukee Braves Major league baseball team when my wife’s uncle, Louis Perini, moved the Boston Braves to Milwaukee the same year. Borchert Field was torn down and is now occupied by the I-43 expressway that runs through the Borchert Field neighborhood.
They say everything in Milwaukee is connected. My wife, from the Boston area, plants a tree in the DMZ orchard garden in the Borchert Field neighborhood, so named for the Borchert Field stadium which housed the Milwaukee Brewers baseball team until 1953 where Pat’s uncle moved the Boston Braves to Milwaukee. When the Braves were sold by her uncle the new owners moved the team to Atlantic and they became the Atlanta braves. Milwaukee had no professional baseball team for awhile until a new franchise in Settle was moved to Milwaukee and renamed the Milwaukee Brewers. A new stadium was built for the Milwaukee Brewers next to County Stadium and now Pat and I live within walking distance of this stadium, home of the Milwaukee Brewers. Everything in Milwaukee is connected!
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