We have another member of the 1957 World Series Championship team, Del Crandall, who would represent Milwaukee in eight All-Star Games.  Crandall lost a couple of years early due to serving his country during the Korean War, but upon his return stateside, he established himself as one of the best defensive Catchers in baseball and an elite pitch caller whom pitchers trusted implicitly.  Crandall won four of the first Gold Gloves issued to Catchers in the National League (the first was won by one person regardless of the league), and had that piece of hardware been issued before 1957, he would have probably won another four.  Crandall would lead all National League Catchers in Total Zone Runs six times and Fielding Percentage four times.

Crandall was not the best hitter, but, for his defense, not many catchers were when he played.  He would accumulate 1,176 Hits and 170 Home Runs as a Brave, and he would have seven seasons where he received MVP votes, his highest being a tenth-place finish in 1958.

In 2003, Crandall was the lone inductee to the Braves Hall of Fame.

Johnny Logan was an excellent defensive Shortstop who would three times lead all of his National League peers in Total Zone Runs and was a three-time leader in Fielding Percentage.  Logan was not the greatest hitter but he was an All-Star four times who scrapped out four straight 150 Hit seasons (1953 to 1957) who helped the Milwaukee Braves win the 1957 World Series.  The respect that writers had for his overall game was shown by Logan receiving MVP votes annually from 1952 to 1957, though he never finished in the top ten.

There was a famous saying around the Boston Braves that waxed poetic about the late 1940’s Boston Braves:

Playing for the Boston Beaneaters for 15 seasons (1894 to 1907) Fred Tenney was somewhat of a trail blazer as he joined professional baseball after playing college ball (in his case, Brown).  Tenney began as a Catcher but transitioned to First Base where he would be known as one of the better defensive First Basemen in his era.  Tenney was also a good hitter for Boston as he was six shy of 2,000 Hits with a .300 Batting Average and three top ten finishes in that metric.