In 1981, a split-season format forced the first ever divisional playoff series, in which the New York Yankees won the Eastern Division series over the Milwaukee Brewers ( who were in the American League until 1998 ) in five games while the Oakland Athletics swept the Kansas City Royals in three games in the Western Division.

The Brewers went to the 1982 World Series and won seven organization of the year awards during his tenure.

Under Selig's watch, the Brewers also won seven Organization of the Year awards, although they posted one of the worst winning percentages in the history of Major League Baseball, over periods of ten years or more.

The Brewers won the second half of the 1981 season ( divided because of a players ' strike ) and played the Yankees in a playoff mini-series they ultimately lost.

Don Sutton started against Jim Palmer and the Brewers won 10 – 2, thanks to Robin Yount hitting two clutch home runs, clinching the AL East Division.

The Brewers won Game One 10 – 0, thanks to Paul Molitor's World Series record 5 hits and a complete game shutout by Mike Caldwell.

The Cardinals won the next two games and seemed to have Game 4 in complete control until the Brewers rallied for six runs in the 7th to win the game 7 – 5.

The Brewers then won Game Five 6 – 4, giving them a 3 – 2 series lead, but the Cardinals trounced Don Sutton winning Game 6 13 – 1, and rallied for three runs late in Game 7 to win the Series, 4 games to 3.

The Brewers had many individual accomplishments during their two playoff years, as both in 1981 and 1982, Brewer players won both the AL MVP and Cy Young awards, with Rollie Fingers winning both awards in 1981, and Robin Yount winning the MVP and Pete Vuckovich winning the Cy Young in 1982.

The Brewers won the first two games of their final homestand of the season to pull within two games of the Cubs, but faced a near impossible task with the club's elimination number down to only three and the wild card leading Padres coming to town.

The Brewers came out of the All-Star break with a bang as they won their first seven games back, all of them on the road, sweeping first the Giants and then the Cardinals, taking over first place in the Wild Card standings.

The Brewers won 3 – 1 while the New York Mets lost to the Florida Marlins 4 – 2, sealing the Brewers the Wild Card spot.

The Brewers hosted their first playoff game in 26 years on Saturday, October 4, and won 4 – 1.

The Brewers faced the NL West Champion Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLDS and won the first two games at Miller Park, with Yovani Gallardo pitching 8 stellar innings in a 4-1 Game 1 win.

Combined with stellar hitting of Ryan Braun, Aramis Ramirez, Corey Hart, and Jonathan Lucroy, the Brewers, from August 16 to September 23, won 26 of 35 games, and as of September 24, only 2 1 / 2 games out of the second Wild Card spot, with a 79-73 record.

The Cardinals subsequently beat the Brewers in the NLCS and won the 2011 World Series in 7 games.

The relocated Brewers were loaded with talent, and the 1953 T-Sox won the second Association pennant in their history and drew over 343, 000 fans, a 244 % increase compared to 1951.

A long dispute with the Company of Brewers over standard prices and measures of ale was won by Whittington.

Fingers won the Rolaids Relief Man of the Year Award in 1977, 1978, and 1980 with the Padres and in 1981 with the Brewers.

* World Series – St. Louis Cardinals won 4 games to 3 over the Milwaukee Brewers to claim their first World Championship since 1967.

Established in 2007, the Brewers won second place at the 2008 US College Quidditch Cup held at Middlebury College.

The Tigers won the game 4 – 0 against the Milwaukee Brewers.

Yount finished with a four-hit game, as the Brewers won 10-2.

His Cardinals won the 1982 World Series, defeating the Milwaukee Brewers in seven games.

One of the American League's eight charter franchises in 1901, it spent its first year as a major league club in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, as the Milwaukee Brewers before moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns.

The Brewers were there when the WL renamed itself the American League in 1900.

During Selig's tenure as club president, the Brewers participated in postseason play in 1981, when the team finished first in the American League East during the second half of the season, and in 1982, when the team made it to the World Series, under the leadership of future Hall of Famers Robin Yount and Paul Molitor.

* Transfer of the Milwaukee Brewers from the American League to the National League ( 1998 )

However, this rivalry did not begin to grow until, when the Brewers moved from the American League Central Division to the NL Central.

Aaron spent 21 seasons with the Milwaukee and Atlanta Braves in the National League ( NL ) before playing for the Milwaukee Brewers of the American League ( AL ) for the final two years of his career.

The Brewers were part of the American League from their creation as an expansion club in 1969 through the 1997 season, after which they moved to the National League Central Division.

The Brewers faced the California Angels in the 1982 American League Championship Series and lost the first two games in California, but then rallied to win the next two games back in Milwaukee, setting up the pivotal Game 5, with the winner being the American League Champions.

The Brewers became the first team to win the American League Championship Series when down two games to none.

As a bit of a shocker for Brewers fans, who were used to the team sporting several power hitters, the Brewers in 1992 instead led the American League with 256 stolen bases, while hitting only 82 home runs, with only two players ( Greg Vaughn and Paul Molitor ) hitting more than 12 for the year.

In 2003, the Brewers hired Doug Melvin as General Manager, who in turn brought in Ned Yost, coach with the Atlanta Braves and a former member of the 1982 American League Champion Brewers, as manager.

During this period, the logo of the club was the Beer Barrel Man, which had been used by the American Association Milwaukee Brewers since at least the 1940s.

In 1990, the Brewers made significant modifications to their uniforms, switching from pullover to button-down jerseys ( the last American League team to do so ).

In, in the aftermath of the Seattle Pilots ' purchase and relocation to Milwaukee ( as the Milwaukee Brewers ) by future Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, the City of Seattle, King County, and the state of Washington ( represented by then-State Attorney General and later U. S. Senator Slade Gorton ) sued the American League for breach of contract.

However, the city gained another American Association franchise the next year, when the Boston Braves transferred to Milwaukee in March 1953, displacing their farm club, the Milwaukee Brewers, which then shifted to Toledo as the " Sox ".

The Milwaukee Brewers agreed in November 1997 to move from the American League to the National League, thereby making the National League a 16-team league.

In 1980, Jackson batted. 300 for the only time in his career, and his 41 home runs tied with Ben Oglivie of the Milwaukee Brewers for the American League lead.

He hit a long home run into the upper deck in Game 5 of the strike-forced 1981 American League Division Series with the Brewers, and the Yankees went on to win the pennant again.

* 1998: Milwaukee Brewers transfer from the American League to the National League.

In the exciting 1981 American League Division Series, Winfield batted. 350 with two doubles and a triple and made some important defensive plays helping the Yankees to victory over the Milwaukee Brewers.

With a 9 – 5 win over the Milwaukee Brewers on July 29, 1986, Anderson became the first to achieve 600 career wins as a manager in both the American and National Leagues.