Milwaukee Braves.info Attendance County Stadium, Milwaukee
County Stadium in the 1950's County Stadium was built in hopes of luring a baseball team to Milwaukee. On April 14th, 1953 the new Milwaukee Braves opened the stadium with a 3-2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals. The game was won in the 10th inning with a home run by Billy Bruton. It was love at first sight for the fans. Right from the very beginning, Milwaukee came out in huge numbers to support their Braves. As the years passed, the numbers dwindled but the first few years were absolutely amazing and set attendance records for the league.

	Year	Attendance	NL Ranking
	1953	1,826,397	1st
	1954	2,131,388	1st
	1955	2,005,836	1st
	1956	2,046,331	1st
	1957	2,215,404	1st
	1958	1,971,101	1st
	1959	1,749,112	2nd
	1960	1,497,799	4th
	1961	1,101,441	5th
	1962	766,921	9th
	1963	773,018	9th
	1964	910,911	6th
	1965	555,584	10th
A couple of interesting footnotes to show how big these early numbers were: The Braves surpassed 2,000,000 4 times in 13 years at County Stadium. County Stadium hosted the Milwaukee Brewers from 1970-1997. During that time, attendance only surpassed 2,000,000 once (2,397,131 in 1983). Miller Park has surpassed 2,000,000 four times to date (2001,2004,2005,2006)