Miller Park (Milwaukee, Wisconsin)

On September 6, 2016 we visited our 24^th baseball park, Miller Park in Milwaukee, to watch the Brewers beat up the Chicago Cubs. Miller Park is fairly new, completed in 2001, replacing the previous Milwaukee County Stadium, and of course as the name suggests, and the city almost demands, the title sponsor is the Miller Brewing Company. The final score that day was Milwaukee 12, Chicago 5, and it was easy to see that most people in the park were very happy. 

Miller Park features North America’s only fan-shaped convertible roof which can open and close in less than 10 minutes when bad weather comes into play. (In fact, only six ball parks of the 30 have retractable roofs at all.) The weather was nice the day we attended, so we didn’t get the chance to see this in action. Seating capacity is 41,900 and attendance on the day we were there peaked at 32,888, almost a full house.

A couple of fun facts about the Milwaukee Brewers:

• The Brewers organization is currently celebrating their 45th season in Major League Baseball.
• The Brewers have been to one World Series. They lost in seven games to the St. Louis Cardinals in 1982.
• That 1982 Brewers team was known as Harvey’s Wallbangers, named after manager Harvey Kuenn and his team’s more than 200 home runs walloped in that season.
• Although the Cleveland Indians were the team portrayed in 1989’s comedy “Major League,” many of the film’s scenes were shot in and around Milwaukee, including Milwaukee County Stadium.