1963 Milwaukee Braves season


The 1963 Milwaukee Braves season was the 11th in Milwaukee and the 93st overall season of the franchise.
The sixth-place Braves finished the season with a record, fifteen games behind the National League and World Series champion The season's home attendance was ninth in the ten-team National League.

Offseason

On November 16, 1962, the 17-year tenure of Louis Perini as owner of the Braves ended when the Boston construction magnate sold the team to a Chicago-based group of investors led by The Braves' home attendance had been declining since its 1957 high-water mark of over 2.2 million fans to 767,000 in five short years, due to a drop-off in on-field success since its last postseason appearance and a ban on "bringing your own" food and beer to County Stadium. Within two years of buying the Braves, the Bartholomay group would be negotiating with Atlanta, in a successful bid to move the club to the Southeast as early as 1965.
The change in owners overshadowed the Braves' continued turbulence in the managerial chair. On October 5, 1962, Birdie Tebbetts, in office for only 13 months, resigned to join the in the His successor, Bobby Bragan, 45, was the team's fourth manager in He had been a coach with the expansion in 1962 and had previously been fired from managing posts with the Pittsburgh Pirates and the Indians. Bragan was last Braves' manager in Milwaukee —and the first in Atlanta in 1966, although he was fired on August 9 of after guiding the team to an overall record of in over 3½ seasons.

Regular season

Record vs. opponents

Notable transactions

Player stats

Batting

Starters by position

Note: Pos = Position; G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
PosPlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
C142501147.2931471
1B9529674.2501147
2B142542132.244543
SS10032080.250429
3B158547144.2632384
LF6711928.235112
CF124442120.2711134
RF161631201.31944130

Other batters

Note: G = Games played; AB = At bats; H = Hits; Avg. = Batting average; HR = Home runs; RBI = Runs batted in
PlayerGABHAvg.HRRBI
146518121.2341150
8625952.201328
9322850.219322
7217441.236010
6414726.177114
7213527.200115
4612026.217315
24469.19601
16292.06900
15285.17904
15173.17600
13164.25000
331.33300
1020.00000
220.00000

Pitching

Starting pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
PlayerGIPWLERASO
33259.22372.60102
4623711143.04190
19116.2572.6272
1584653.6428

Other pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; IP = Innings pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
PlayerGIPWLERASO
41169.1993.93105
481597112.66105
41145.19113.78100
3174.1434.9672

Relief pitchers

Note: G = Games pitched; W = Wins; L = Losses; SV = Saves; ERA = Earned run average; SO = Strikeouts
PlayerGWLSVERASO
454655.4044
371103.4040
301003.0919
253302.6819
121121.2122
200012.006

Awards and honors

All-Star Game
LEAGUE CHAMPIONS: Yakima, Greenville