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Lloyd Street Grounds
Location	N 18th St. & W Lloyd St. up to W North Ave. Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Coordinates	43°03′32.02″N, 87°56′2.14″W
Opened	May 3, 1901
Closed	September 12, 1901
Owner
Surface	Grass
Tenants
Milwaukee Brewers (AL)
Capacity
Unknown
Dimensions
Unknown

Lloyd Street Grounds was a baseball stadium located in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and home turf of the old Milwaukee Brewers. It opened on May 3, 1901 and its last game was played on September 12, 1901. After the last game was played, the old Milwaukee Brewers announced they were moving to St. Louis to become the St. Louis Browns, made famous by Bill Veeck in the 1950s. In 1953, the St. Louis Browns moved to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Orioles.

The playfield was situated about one mile northwest of downtown Milwaukee in the eastern part of a block bound by West North Avenue on the north, North 16th Street on the east, North 18th Street on the west and West Lloyd Street on the south. The field faced due north, so Lloyd Street ran directly behind home plate and the grandstand.

Drawing of a baseball cap similar to what the 1901 Milwaukee Brewers would have worn

When the National League got rid of 4 teams it opened the door for a second Major League. Ban Johnson, who was the President of the minor Western League, decided to step up his league to the next level. He placed teams in cities that the National League had just shunned, and other teams were placed in already existing National League cities to create a rivalry. With all this moving around only two cities survived from the Western League, and that was Detroit which was about to have a boom thanks to the Automobile Industry, and Milwaukee which was years away from being a Major League city. Almost from the start of the season plans were under way to relocate the Brewers, this resulted in the club finishing dead last with a 48-89 record. The Brewers would move on to St. Louis the following season, and become the Browns. As for Milwaukee they would be a successful minor league city for years, before, getting another Major League team in 1953, when the NL's Braves moved from Boston. After the Braves left Milwaukee without a team again in 1966, the Milwaukee Brewers were re-incarnated in 1970. Ironically the Brewers moved from Seattle after just one season as had the original Brewers 68 years earlier.

• Lloyd Street Grounds