The Village of Elm Grove, Wisconsin has fielded baseball teams since the mid-1800s.

 

The Waukesha Freeman of June 28, 1877 reported, "This town has baseball fever bad.  It can now boast of no less than four clubs, either one of which will, in a short time, be prepared to play for the championship of the United States or that of Brookfield.  It matters but little which."

 

Many of the Village's founding families (e.g., Nueman, Sanders, Ramstack, Spitzer) at one time or another had players on an Elm Grove team.  And it will forever remain an historical fact that in 1928 nobody could beat the men's team.  Villagers spent hours maintaining the excellent ball field located just behind what is now the Silver Spur Restaurant on the Watertown Plank Road.

 

Sadly, two World Wars, a Great Depression and the long-suffered trend of collectivizing neighboring community resources produced an extensive drought in Elm Grove baseball.  This trend may well have ended, however, since here in the early part of the Twenty-first Century, with the development of the Elm Grove Eagles youth baseball program, the Village once again has a team it may call its own; and with it the 150 year tradition of Elm Grove baseball lives on.