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 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.

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.

To address some needed bullpen depth, the Brewers made a shocking trade just hours after the All-Star Game, trading two Class-A prospects to the New York Mets for ace reliever Francisco Rodriguez, who immediately became the Brewers set-up reliever for closer John Axford.

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.

In 2011 TNT aired Game 2 of the Tampa Bay Rays vs. Texas Rangers series, Game 2 of the Detroit Tigers vs. New York Yankees series and Game 3 of the Arizona Diamondbacks vs. Milwaukee Brewers series.

* Jeffrey Hammonds, outfielder with the Orioles, Cincinnati Reds, Colorado Rockies, Milwaukee Brewers and Washington Nationals ; played in the 2000 All-Star Game.

Yount also threw out the first ball for Game 2 of the 2011 NLDS, with the throw being caught by Sveum, who was at the time the Brewers hitting coach.

In Game 4 ( the final game ) of the NLDS against the Brewers, Burrell hit two home runs ( a three-run game-winning home run against Jeff Suppan and a solo home run against Guillermo Mota ) in a 6 – 2 victory that gave the Phillies their first playoff series victory since 1993.

In 2002, Sexson represented the Milwaukee Brewers in the MLB All-Star Game which was played in Milwaukee.

In 2003, he played in all 162 games and again tied the Brewers record of 45 home runs while hitting. 272 and earning a selection to the 2003 MLB All-Star Game.

He had also sung the National Anthem at two previous World Series games: the 1982 World Series opener between the St. Louis Cardinals and Milwaukee Brewers and Game Three of the 1985 World Series between the Cardinals and the Kansas City Royals, both at Busch Memorial Stadium in St. Louis.

He homered in the 6th inning of the All-Star Game, on a 3 – 2 pitch from Francisco Cordero of the Milwaukee Brewers.

On July 12, 2011, immediately following the All-Star Game, Rodríguez was traded to the Milwaukee Brewers along with cash, and Adrian Rosario and Danny Herrera.

Jackson had previously broadcast ABC's coverage of the 1977, 1979 and 1981 World Series ( Jackson split play-by-play duties with Al Michaels for the latter two with Jackson calling the games at the American League site ), the 1978, 1980 and 1982 All-Star Game ( again, sharing play-by-play duties with Al Michaels for the latter two ), the 1980 National League Championship Series, the 1976, 1978 and 1982 American League Championship Series, the 1981 American League Division Series between the New York Yankees and Milwaukee Brewers, and the 1978 American League East tie-breaker game between the New York Yankees and Boston Red Sox alongside Don Drysdale.

Wickman made his first All-Star Game appearance in 2000 as a member of the Milwaukee Brewers.

Fielder hit the Brewers ' only home run of the series, in Game 4.

He got out to a promising start in his career, even representing the Brewers at the 2006 MLB All-Star Game.

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.

One of the games played in Milwaukee that year was against the expansion Seattle Pilots, the team that would become the Brewers.

One thing he did accomplish that year was hit his first career home run in a September 19, 2003 game against the Milwaukee Brewers.

One of the more interesting events held in the stadium was an exhibition baseball game involving the Atlanta Braves and Milwaukee Brewers during the 1975 season.

One of the most popular players in Brewers history, and affectionately known as " Stormin ' Gorman ", Thomas hit more home runs during the period 1978-1983 than any other player in the American League with 197.