Atlanta Braves

The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From 1997 to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field. more...

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The "Braves" name originates from the term for a Native American warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and "America's Team", the latter a reference to the team's games being broadcast on the nationally available TBS, gaining a wide fanbase. They were also known during the first half of the 1990s as "the Team of the '90s", in reference to the team's great success in these years. While the Yankees took the spotlight in the late '90s, the Braves still won their division an unprecedented 14 consecutive times from 1991-2005 omitting the strike-shortened 1994 season.

One of the National League's two remaining charter franchises, the club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1871. Then the Boston Red Stockings (not to be confused with the American League's Boston Red Sox or the NL Central's Cincinnati Reds), the team moved to Milwaukee in 1953 and became the Milwaukee Braves. It was not until 1966 that the team moved to Georgia.

The Braves are the only MLB franchise to have won the World Series in three different home cities. The St Louis Rams are the only other pro sports team to win a championship in 3 different cities. The team's tenure in Atlanta is famous for Hank Aaron's breaking of the career home run record in 1974; the new record stood until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007.

History

Boston

1871-1913

The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Player-manager Harry Wright then went to Boston, Massachusetts, with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, a charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players. The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. (The only other team that has been organized as long, the Chicago Cubs, did not play for the two years following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871.) Two young players hired away from the Forest City club of Rockford, Illinois, turned out to be the biggest stars during the NAPBBP years: pitcher Al Spalding (founder of Spalding sporting goods) and second baseman Ross Barnes.

Led by the Wright brothers, Barnes, and Spalding, the Red Stockings dominated the National Association, winning four of that league's five championships. The team became one of the National League's charter franchises in 1876, sometimes called the "Red Caps" (as a new Cincinnati Red Stockings club was another charter member). Boston came to be called the Beaneaters in 1883, while retaining red as the team color.

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