1961 Milwaukee Braves season
| 1961 Milwaukee Braves | |
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| Record | 83–71 (.539) |
| League place | 4th |
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| Owner(s) | Louis R. Perini |
| General manager(s) | John McHale |
| Manager(s) | Chuck Dressen, Birdie Tebbetts |
| Local television | none |
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WEMP (Earl Gillespie, Blaine Walsh) |
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The Milwaukee Braves' 1961 season saw the team win 83 games and lose 71, good for fourth place in the final National League standings, ten games short of the NL Champion Cincinnati Reds.
On April 28, Warren Spahn threw a no-hitter against the San Francisco Giants.
On June 8, against the Cincinnati Reds, four consecutive Braves batters hit home runs off pitchers Jim Maloney (two) and Marshall Bridges (two more) in the seventh inning. The batters who accomplished this feat were Eddie Mathews, Hank Aaron, Joe Adcock, and Frank Thomas. Oddly, both Adcock and Thomas were former players for the Reds.
Chuck Dressen, 66, was fired September 4, 1961, less than a month shy of finishing his second year as the Braves' manager. The club was 71–58 (.558) and in third place, seven games in arrears of the front-running Cincinnati Reds, when the change was announced. The Braves were 159–124 (.562) under Dressen's command. His successor was executive vice president Birdie Tebbetts, 48, a former Cincinnati manager, who came down from the Milwaukee front office to take the reins; Tebbetts was signed through the 1963 season but he would spend only 1962 as the Braves' skipper before leaving to become manager of the 1963 Cleveland Indians. Tebbetts retained two of Dressen's coaches, Andy Pafko and Whit Wyatt, while George Myatt departed for the American League Detroit Tigers.
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