The 1953 Milwaukee Braves season saw the return of Major League Baseball to Milwaukee for the first time since 1901, when the original Milwaukee Brewers played before moving to St. Louis and becoming the Browns. With attendance and interest in Boston very low, team owner Lou Perini moved the team to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, during spring training, just weeks before the start of the season. In their first season in the Badger State, the Braves finished in second place in the National League standings, with a 92–62 record, thirteen games behind the NL Champion Brooklyn Dodgers.