Atlanta Braves history

In 1875, they won 26 straight games, and won all 38 home games at the Union Base Ball Ground in Boston's South End.

The Red Stockings, as they were originally named, dominated the NA with four pennants before the league broke up and the team fled to the National League for that circuit’s inaugural 1876 campaign.

Nickname Braves – James Gaffney, who became president of Boston’s National League franchise in 1911, was a member of Tammany Hall, the Democratic Party machine that controlled New York City politics throughout the 19th century.

The name "Braves", which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior.

1914: The Miracle Braves Cellar-bound in July, the usually hapless Boston Braves perform one of the game’s greatest turnarounds.

But it all fell apart in 1935 when Fuchs brought in an aging Babe Ruth with the (empty) promise of front office involvement, resulting in a 38-115 record that’s the worst in modern NL history.

In an attempt to shed the losing image, the Braves were renamed the Bees in 1936; the rebrand lasted only five years.

After hitting 25 home runs for Boston as a rookie in 1952, he captured the National League home run title the following year by hitting 47 during the team’s first season in Milwaukee.

1953: Brave New World After 50 years of geographical entrenchment, baseball begins an active era of relocation and makes Milwaukee its first benefactor.

In August 1954 Mathews famously appeared on the cover of the debut issue of Sports Illustrated.

1957: If Casey Had a Hammer Hank Aaron ascends to the superstar elite and gives Milwaukee its first World Series title.

The Braves returned to the World Series in 1958 but lost to the Yankees in seven games.

Mathews, a left-handed-hitter and an all-star, earned the second home-run crown of his career in 1959 when he led the league with 46.

Perini sold the Braves to a Chicago-based group led by William Bartholomay in 1962.

After a series of court battles, injunctions and appeals, the team finally arrived in Atlanta in 1966.

On July 14, 1967, he joined an elite group of major leaguers by reaching the 500-home-run mark, and he finished his career with a total of 512 home runs.

Mathews spent his final season as a pinch-hitter with the Detroit Tigers and received another championship ring when the team won the 1968 World Series.

Atlanta’s first postseason appearance took place in 1969 but the Braves fell short in the inaugural NLCS to that “other” miracle team, the New York Mets.

1974: “I’m Just Glad It’s Over” Hank Aaron’s long and personally painful ride to home run history comes to a successful conclusion.

In 1976, the team was purchased by media magnate Ted Turner, owner of superstation WTBS, as a means to keep the team (and one of his main programming staples) in Atlanta.

World Series Baseball Hall of Fame (1978) Baseball Hall of Fame (inducted in 1978) 2 World Series championships 12x All-Star

The Braves finally found solid footing in 1982 when they were sparked by squeaky-clean slugger Dale Murphy and a solid supporting cast to earn their first postseason appearance in 13 years.

1991: From Worst to First Out of nowhere, the Minnesota Twins and Atlanta Braves leap to the top and put on one of the most memorable World Series.

Postseason play proved much less successful, as the Braves snagged only one World Series title, in 1995.

The Braves maintained their excellence through 2005 behind the veteran and crusty manager Bobby Cox, but success continued to elude them in the postseason, failing even to win one NL pennant.

They returned to the playoffs as the National League Wild Card in 2010.

In 2011 the team surrendered an 8 1/2-game lead in the Wild Card standings with four weeks remaining in the season to miss the playoffs, which was the second worst September collapse in Major League Baseball history.

The Braves returned to postseason play in 2012 but were quickly eliminated by the St Louis Cardinals (the team that had edged out Atlanta for the Wild Card the previous season) in the newly instituted one-game Wild Card playoff game.

In 2013 the Braves won their first division title in eight years but were again eliminated in their opening playoff series.

Since 2017, their home stadium has been Truist Park (formerly SunTrust Park), located 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in Cumberland, Georgia.

The young Braves roster continued to improve in 2019, winning 97 games and another division title before again losing its first postseason series.

Atlanta returned to the National League Championship Series (NLCS) in 2020, but the team gave up a 3–1 series lead and was eliminated by the Los Angeles Dodgers in seven games.