Milwaukee County Stadium Vintage arena The AAA Minneapolis Millers played

The AAA Minneapolis Millers played there from 1956 through 1959

as well as the Negro American League Cleveland Buckeyes

Jackie Robinson played for the Monarchs in 1945

Even after the color barrier had been broken in Major League Baseball by Jackie Robinson (a former Monarch)

in Louisville

Milwaukee County Stadium Vintage arena The AAA Minneapolis Millers playedCounty Stadium was originally developed to replace aging Borchert field which dated to 1888. At the time ground was broken, the city was home to a AA team but hoped to attract a big league club. Indeed, the minor league team would never play there. In 1953, the year the ballpark opened, the city welcomed Boston's relocated NL team. They stayed through the1965 season, after which they moved to Atlanta. In 1970, Seattle's expansion team, which had only