1959 Milwaukee Braves season
| 1959 Milwaukee Braves | |
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| Record | 86–70 (.551) |
| League place | 2nd |
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| Owner(s) | Louis R. Perini |
| General manager(s) | John McHale |
| Manager(s) | Fred Haney |
| Local television | none |
| Local radio |
WEMP WTMJ (Earl Gillespie, Blaine Walsh) |
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The 1959 Milwaukee Braves season was the seventh season for the franchise in Milwaukee and its 84th season overall. The Braves ended the National League regular season in a first-place tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers. With both clubs finishing with records of 86–68, a special best-of-three tie-breaking series was played to decide the National League Championship for the World Series. The Braves lost this series to the Dodgers two games to none. That left the Braves record at 86–70, two games behind the Dodgers, who went on to win the 1959 World Series over the Chicago White Sox.
Three days after the conclusion of the 1958 World Series, which the Braves lost in seven games to the New York Yankees, the club announced a reorganization of its front office. Team president Joseph Cairnes stepped aside, and was succeeded by former Cincinnati Redlegs manager Birdie Tebbetts, 46. Named executive vice president, and ranked just below owner Louis Perini on the Braves' organizational chart, Tebbetts had never before served in a front-office capacity in baseball.
The repercussions of Tebbetts' appointment to a senior management post were felt three months later when general manager John J. Quinn, 50, a member of the team's front office since 1936 (as well as the son of former owner J. A. Robert Quinn) and the Braves' GM since 1945, resigned on January 14, 1959, to take the reins of the Philadelphia Phillies. Quinn would in turn be replaced in Milwaukee by Tebbetts' former teammate with the Detroit Tigers, 37-year-old John McHale, GM of the Tigers since 1957. McHale would serve as the Braves' general manager and, later, team president, through the club's final years in Milwaukee and its 1966 move to Atlanta, before his dismissal in 1966.
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