Professional
Milwaukee has a rich history of involvement in professional and sports, going back to the 19th century. Currently, its major sports teams include:
| Club | Sport | Founded | Current League | Stadium |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Milwaukee Brewers | Baseball | 1969 | National League (MLB) | Miller Park |
| Milwaukee Bucks | Basketball | 1968 | National Basketball Association | BMO Harris Bradley Center |
| Milwaukee Admirals | Ice Hockey | 1970 | American Hockey League | BMO Harris Bradley Center |
| Milwaukee Wave | Indoor soccer | 1984 | Major Indoor Soccer League | U.S. Cellular Arena |
| Milwaukee Mustangs | Arena football | 2009 | Arena Football League | BMO Harris Bradley Center |
Throughout the sports world, Milwaukee is perhaps best known for its tradition of tailgating before Brewers baseball games. The Brewers made their first post-season appearance in 1981 and won the American League pennant in 1982. In 1998, they became the only Major League team in history to switch leagues, doing so to accommodate the expansion franchises of the Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays. They also have the distinction of being the only team to have played in four of the six current Major League divisions.
The Bucks won the 1971 NBA Championship, a mere three years after joining the league. They made it back to the Finals in 1974, but soon developed a reputation as "next year's champions," winning at least one playoff series for the next 15 years, but still having yet to return to the Finals.
The Wave are the longest continuously-running professional soccer operation in North America. They have also been one of the most successful, having captured five league championships in the past nine years.
An interesting note; the Milwaukee Admirals ice hockey club is a feeder team for the Nashville Predators, and Nashville's minor league baseball team, the Nashville Sounds, is the farm team for the Milwaukee Brewers. Both the Admirals and Sounds are the top-level minor league affiliate.
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Famous quotes containing the word professional:
“Three words that still have meaning, that I think we can apply to all professional writing, are discovery, originality, invention. The professional writer discovers some aspect of the world and invents out of the speech of his time some particularly apt and original way of putting it down on paper.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)
“If I’d written all the truth I knew for the past ten years, about 600 people—including me—would be rotting in prison cells from Rio to Seattle today. Absolute truth is a very rare and dangerous commodity in the context of professional journalism.”
—Hunter S. Thompson (b. 1939)
“Virtue and vice suppose the freedom to choose between good and evil; but what can be the morals of a woman who is not even in possession of herself, who has nothing of her own, and who all her life has been trained to extricate herself from the arbitrary by ruse, from constraint by using her charms?... As long as she is subject to man’s yoke or to prejudice, as long as she receives no professional education, as long as she is deprived of her civil rights, there can be no moral law for her!”
—Flora Tristan (1803–1844)