Not coincidentally, the Philadelphia Athletics, St. Louis Browns, Brooklyn Dodgers, and New York Giants all relocated over the next five years.

Sluggers Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron drove the offense (they would hit a combined 1,226 home runs as Braves, with 850 of those coming while the franchise was in Milwaukee), while Warren Spahn, Lew Burdette, and Bob Buhl anchored the rotation.

By the June 15 trade deadline, the team was 37–18 (.673) and 0 games behind the Brooklyn Dodgers, who were only ahead by percentage points, with a record of 36–17 (.679).

Though the team went on a 10-game win streak towards the end of May, they only led the National League for the last week of May, at most 1½ games ahead.

For the second half of July, all of August, and most of September, the Braves held a small lead in the National League, in a tight race with the Brooklyn Dodgers and Cincinnati Redlegs.

August 7 saw the Braves take the first place in the National League, a lead they would hold for the rest of the season, finishing at 95–59 (.617).

Spearheaded by Hank Aaron's MVP season, he led the National League in home runs and RBI.

Perhaps the most memorable of his 44 round-trippers that season came on September 23, a two-run walk-off home run that gave the Braves a 4–2 victory over the St. Louis Cardinals and clinched the league championship.

The team drew over 2.2 million at home during the regular season, then went on to its first World Series win in over 40 years, defeating the New York Yankees of Yogi Berra, Mickey Mantle, and Whitey Ford in seven games.

[18] In the World Series, the Braves jumped out to a three games to one lead in against New York once more, thanks in part to the strength of Warren Spahn's and Lew Burdette's pitching.

The Braves led the National League in May and June, whereas in July and August, the team hovered at its worst, 4½ games behind.

The three-way race continued into the last week of September, when the Giants fell off (having led in July and August).

Many residents of Chicago and Milwaukee were hoping for a White Sox–Braves World Series, as the cities are only about 75 miles (120 km) apart along the west shore of Lake Michigan.

The Braves were somewhat mediocre as the 1960s began but fattened up on the expansion New York Mets and Houston Colt .45s (now the American League Astros) starting in 1962.

[21] Two players threw no-hitters against the Philadelphia Phillies: Lew Burdette on August 18 and Warren Spahn on September 16.

Hank Aaron hit 44 home runs and notched 130 RBI, and Warren Spahn was once again the ace of the staff.

After an injunction filed in Wisconsin, blocked the Braves from moving to Atlanta for the 1965 season, attendance plummeted to 555,000.

The ink had barely dried on the deal when Bartholomay started shopping the Braves to a larger television market.

However, an injunction filed in Wisconsin forced the Braves to play a lame-duck season in Milwaukee, but the home attendance was less than 560,000.

The Braves completed the move to Atlanta prior to the 1966 season, and drew over 1.5 million in the new stadium that first year.

[34] As early as June 1969, an MLB memo envisaged the newly founded Seattle Pilots of the American League moving to Milwaukee.

Of the four Milwaukee Braves whose numbers have been retired, all who are eligible for the National Baseball Hall of Fame have been elected.

[37] Hank Aaron *† Eddie Mathews *[38] Red Schoendienst Enos Slaughter Warren Spahn *