Atlanta Braves
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The team played its home games at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium from 1966 to 1996, and at Turner Field from 1997 to 2016. Since 2017, their home stadium has been Truist Park, located 10 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia. The franchise has won 18 divisional titles, 17 National League pennants, and three World Series championships – in 1914 as the Boston Braves, in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves, and in 1995 as the Atlanta Braves.
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The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The team played its home games at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium from 1966 to 1996, and at Turner Field from 1997 to 2016. Since 2017, their home stadium has been Truist Park, located 10 miles northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cobb County, Georgia. The Braves are the only Major League Baseball franchise to have won the World Series in three different home cities. Since their debut in the National League in 1876, the franchise has won 18 divisional titles, 17 National League pennants, and three World Series championships – in 1914 as the Boston Braves, in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves, and in 1995 as the Atlanta Braves. As of the end of the 2020 season, the Braves’ overall win–loss record is 10,732-10,684. The name \”Braves\”, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior. The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. They are nicknamed \”the Bravos\”, and often referred to as \”America’s Team\” in reference to the team’s games being broadcast on the nationally available TBS from the 1970s until 2007, giving the team a nationwide fan base. The Boston Red Caps were one of the league’s dominant teams during the 19th century, winning a total of 18 pennants. The Red Caps played in the first game in the history of the National League, on Saturday, April 22, 1876,.
defeating the Philadelphia Athletics, 6–5. The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first openly all-professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Many of the Beaneaters’ stars jumped to the American League’s new team, which did not even bother to match contracts that were offered to the Beaters’ new owners. They only managed one winning season from 1900 to 1913, and lost only one winning season from 1900, 1913, to the Minnesota Twins’ Billy Hamilton. The Beaneaters won 102–47, while retaining the team color of red as the color for almost a century. They were also known as the Red Caps, sometimes called the \”Red Caps\” The team was decimated when the American League’s new entry set up in 1901, and set up shop in Boston, where they won only one winning season from 1901 to 1913. The Beaneater team was called the Boston Red Stocks, and the name was changed to the Boston Braves in 1912. In 1953, the team moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and became the Milwaukee Bravers, followed by the final move to Atlanta in 1966. The team became one of the National League’s charter franchises in 1876. They are the Braves and the Chicago Cubs are the two remaining charter franchises. The Atlanta Braves play spring training games at CoolToday Park in North Port, Florida.
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