Lloyd Street Grounds

"Lloyd Street Grounds was a baseball park located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It was used by two different professional baseball clubs during 1895-1903. The field was situated about one mile northwest of downtown Milwaukee in the eastern part of a block bounded by West North Avenue on the north, North 16th Street on the east, North 18th Street on the west and West Lloyd Street on the south. The field faced due north, so Lloyd Street ran directly behind home plate and the grandstand. The first occupants of the Lloyd Street Grounds were the Milwaukee Brewers of the Western League, which opened the park in 1895 after leaving Athletic Park, the eventual Borchert Field. The Western League became the American League in 1900, but was still officially a minor league. In 1901 the American League became a major league, retaining Milwaukee as one of its charter members."
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1901 Milwaukee Brewers

"The Milwaukee wooden ballpark that hosted the most major league ball games (70) was the Lloyd Street Grounds. Quickly constructed in early 1895, the Grounds, often called Milwaukee Baseball Park, was located between West Lloyd Street on the south, North 16th Street on the east, West North Avenue on the north, and homes in Ephraim Mariner’s subdivision that bounded North 18th Street on the west. ... The choice of this site for the Milwaukee 1895 Western League ball club came about after the team’s owners determined that the rent was too expensive at Athletic Park. After reconstruction of the Wright Street Grounds (secured by a ten-year lease with Wright owner Charles Kipp) had begun in February, Harry Quin, owner of Athletic Park, convinced Wright Street neighbors that the alley running through that empty block should not be vacated. Quin did this hoping that the team would have no choice but to lease from him."
SABR: Lloyd Street Grounds (Milwaukee)

A Tip of the (Baseball) Cap
"Two months ago, the Brewers unveiled a monument at Miller Park honoring the 1901 Brewers, one of the inaugural American League franchises. The monument, commissioned by Watertown baseball historian David Stalker, reads: 'In 1900, the American League was born at a Milwaukee hotel named the Republican House. The following year, during the 1901 inaugural season for the American League, the Milwaukee Brewers were one of eight teams to participate in Major League Baseball's "Junior Circuit." The Brewers played their home games at Lloyd Street Grounds, which was located on the city's north side (Lloyd Street and 16th Street). Player/Manager Hugh Duffy hit .302 that season and was later inducted into the National Baseball Hall of Fame. Wid Conroy was the team captain. Bill Reidy led the pitching staff with 16 wins, and John Anderson paced the team with a .330 batting average.'"
Borchert Field

"... Milwaukee had actually been an American League city since literally Day 1. In the late 1800s, Byron 'Ban' Johnson had grown weary of the rough-and-tumble National League. Johnson, who had been elected president of the Western League in 1893, felt that the only 'major' league was driving away women and children because of what he considered a rowdy atmosphere and coarse language at games. Johnson understood that fewer fans to draw from logically meant that there were fewer dollars coming through the turnstiles. Among the teams in the Western League were the Milwaukee Brewers, owned by attorney and Wisconsin Rep. Matthew Killilea. Soon after taking office and allowing umpires to control games, families began attending Western League games. Before long, the increased attendance, and thus increased revenue, emboldened Johnson to call a meeting with league officials to take his brand of baseball to the next level."
Milwaukee's first Major League team remembered. No, not them.