Joe Adcock

Historical marker location:

1 Brewers Way, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

( Marker is on Miller Park Way (State Highway 175) 1.6 miles south of Interstate 94, on the right when traveling south.)

Milwaukee Braves, 1953-1962.

Wisconsin is known as the "Badger State" because of the lead miners who first settled there in the 1820s and 1830s. These miners often lived in tunnels burrowed into hillsides, much like badgers.