The team known as the
Atlanta Braves is the oldest continuously running baseball team. It is the only team out of twenty-eight that has fielded a team every single season Major League Baseball has been in existence. On January
20, 1871 the
Boston Red Stockings came into existence as
one of the nine charter members of
the National League. They were a dominant
force in the League. They won
six of the first eight pennants and in 1875 they won twenty-six
games in a row
along with every single
home game at the
Union Baseball Grounds in
South Boston. In 1883, in order to tie their
identity to Boston and to avoid confusion with the
Cincinnati Reds of
the American League, the Red Stockings
change their
name to the Beaneaters. By 1812 the Boston began to be called the Braves
In 1957 the Braves won their first World Series championship in Milwaukee. Hank Aaron who won the League MVP and led the league in home runs and RBI’s led the team to victory. That same year Warren Spahn, a future Hall of Famer, won the Cy Young Award for the best picture. This was the first and only time the Braves would bring a championship home to Milwaukee. In 1966 due once again to dwindling fan support the Braves moved to Atlanta, Georgia.
In the 90’s the Braves became one of the best team dynasties in all of sports, winning ten consecutive divisional pennants and winning the World Series in 1995. 1991 marked the start of this meteoric rise to the top. The Braves became to first team in Major League history to go to the World Series after finishing with the worst record in baseball the previous season.
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