The 1963 Milwaukee Braves season was the 11th in Milwaukee and the 93st overall season of the franchise. The sixth-place Braves finished the season with an record, fifteen games behind the National League and World Series champion The season's home attendance was ninth in the ten-team National League. Offseason October 11, 1962: Ron Hunt was purchased from the Braves by the New York Mets. November 26, 1962: Ellis Burton was drafted from the Braves by the Houston Colt .45s in the 1962 rule 5 draft. November 26, 1962: 1962 first-year draft Hal Haydel was drafted from the Braves by the Houston Colt .45s. Don Taussig was drafted by the Braves from the Houston Colt .45s. November 30, 1962: Jim Bolger, Don Nottebart, and Connie Grob were traded by the Braves to the Houston Colt .45s for Norm Larker. Prior to 1963 season: Lou Klimchock was acquired from the Braves by the Washington Senators. Ownership change and managerial turnover On November 16, 1962, the 17-year tenure of Louis Perini as owner of the Braves ended when the Boston construction magnate sold the team to a Chicago-based group of investors led by The Braves' home attendance had been declining since its 1957 high-water mark of over 2.2 million fans to 767,000 in five short years, due to a drop-off in on-field success since its last postseason appearance (the 1959 NL playoff) and a ban on "bringing your own" food and beer to County Stadium. Within two years of buying the Braves, the Bartholomay group would be negotiating with Atlanta, in a successful bid to move the club to the Southeast as early as 1965. The change in owners overshadowed the Braves' continued turbulence in the managerial chair. On October 5, 1962, Birdie Tebbetts, in office for only 13 months, resigned to join the in the His successor, Bobby Bragan, 45, was the team's fourth manager in He had been a coach with the expansion in 1962 and had previously been fired from managing posts with the Pittsburgh Pirates (1956–1957) and the Indians (1958). In a 1976 memoir, longtime Dodger executive Harold Parrott would claim that the Braves' hiring of Bragan after the 1962 season was orchestrated by Branch Rickey to thwart a plan by Dodger owner Walter O'Malley to replace his manager, eventual Hall of Famer Walter Alston, with Leo Durocher. O'Malley was strongly considering firing Alston, but only if he could