Lowe agreed to a four-year, $ 60 million dollar deal with the Atlanta Braves during the 2008-09 offseason.

On the date of his retirement, Glavine agreed to take a job as a special assistant to Braves president John Schuerholz starting in the 2010 season.

The other National League owners agreed, with the team becoming the Milwaukee Braves.

On December 2, 2009, Wagner and the Atlanta Braves agreed on a one-year contract worth $ 7 million that included a $ 6. 5 million vesting option for the 2011 season.

On December 20, 2006, Woodward agreed to a one-year deal with the Atlanta Braves.

The Braves played in Bradenton for one year, however the city stated that if the Braves agreed to return the very next season, the city would build new clubhouses, field boxes along the first and third baselines and a new press box.

In 1986, Walker and the Braves mutually agreed to end their relationship due to disagreements about pay and missed dates.

But the Braves stayed only three seasons ( 1953 – 55 ) before moving the team to Wichita, Kansas, as the Wichita Braves.

He played only two games with the Braves that year, but he stayed in Atlanta for one full season and one partial season.

Originally signed by the Atlanta Braves, " Mick The Quick " began his big league career in 1970 with the Angels playing center field and third base, and stayed with them through the 1975 season.

In 1999 Yost became the Braves ' third base coach, where he stayed until the end of the 2002 season.

He stayed with the Cubs through the 1971 and 1972 seasons, and was traded to the Atlanta Braves in May, 1973.

That marked his last year as a major league manager, although Westrum stayed in the game as a scout for the Atlanta Braves for many years.

In, Lou Perini, the owner of the Boston Braves ( later renamed the Atlanta Braves ) moved his club's spring training to Bradenton, after finding his club's training facility in Fort Lauderdale too windy.

In, Bradenton became the first club to bring allow an African-American baseball player, Sam Jethroe of the Boston Braves.

Ironically, the team left Connie Mack Field for Bradenton, after the Milwaukee Braves arrived in West Palm Beach.

In 1970, he purchased the Seattle Pilots in bankruptcy court and renamed them the Milwaukee Brewers after minor league team of the same name he had watched in his youth, which existed until the arrival of the Braves in Milwaukee in 1952.

The NLCS game six win was sixteen innings long, the longest playoff game in history until the Braves and Astros went 18 innings in 2005.

Colloquially referred to as the R-Braves, they were based in Richmond, Virginia, where they played from 1966, when the Milwaukee Braves moved to Atlanta where their AAA team, the Crackers, had been playing for four years, until 2008.

The teams were lovingly nicknamed the Borden Berries in 1934 and the name was used until 1966 when it was changed by the student body to the Borden Braves.

It took until 1986 for the Brockville Braves to win a CJHL championships.

The Hankyu Braves ( named in 1947 ) played until the 1988 season and became the predecessors of the present-day Orix Buffaloes.

His son Skip Caray followed him into the booth as a baseball broadcaster with the Atlanta Braves until his death on August 3, 2008, and his son Chris had a long career with Maritz Travel before passing away at an early age from brain cancer.

This left upstate New York without a team until the Buffalo Braves were established in 1970.

Those were also the second and third of the three times the franchise had finished. 500 or better since moving in 1978, after being the Buffalo Braves, until finishing over. 500 and making the playoffs in 2006.

In 1976, he was added to the broadcast team for the Braves, a position he held until his death.

Gibson remained with Torre on the Braves ' coaching staff until the end of the 1984 season.

Simon's debut season came with the Atlanta Braves in 1997, for whom he played until 1999.

Despite having a mediocre season until August, Lowe was exceptional in September 2010, with a 5 – 0 record, a 1. 77 ERA, 29 strikeouts while walking only three batters, which helped the Braves secure a playoff berth as the NL Wild Card, being one game ahead of the second place Padres at the end of the regular season.

As the Yankees again met the Braves in the 1958 Series, his impact did not become notable until Game 5, when he caught a sinking fly ball in the sixth inning and made a throw to catch Bill Bruton off first base for a double play, preserving a 1-0 lead.

Besides the Braves ( 1948 until they moved to Milwaukee before the 1953 season ) and the Red Sox ( 1948 – 1957 ; 1972 – 1974, and a handful of games in 2003 and 2004, along with certain NBC-aired games ), WBZ-TV also broadcast the Boston Celtics from 1972 – 73 through 1984 – 85.

Torrealba was signed as an undrafted free agent by the Atlanta Braves in 1995, working his way up the system until he made his major league debut on October 6, 2001.

Various injuries held him back until, when he was the team's Opening Day starter, shutting down the Atlanta Braves at Turner Field, 10 – 2.

The Braves and Atlanta Falcons of the National Football League shared the venue from 1966 until 1991, when the Falcons moved into the newly completed Georgia Dome.

The Braves continued to play at Fulton County Stadium until the end of the 1996 season, when they moved into Turner Field, a converted Centennial Olympic Stadium originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

The Falcons moved to the Georgia Dome in 1992, while the Braves had to wait until the Olympic Stadium from the 1996 Summer Olympics was transformed into Turner Field to move out at the beginning of the season.

The team continued to play at Fenway Park until Braves Field was completed during the 1915 season.

From 1948 until 1950, WNAC shared telecasts of the Boston Braves with WBZ ; and shared telecasts of the Boston Red Sox with WBZ from 1948 through 1954.

Terry didn't play again until September 30, when he made his first appearance in the starting lineup against the Boston Braves.

WSB carried Braves baseball coverage from 1966, when the Braves moved from Milwaukee, until 1991.

Hartman, purchased by the A's from the Milwaukee Braves last fall, allowed no hits in his scoreless three-inning appearance, and merited the triumph.

Following the formation of baseball's first professional organization, the National Association of Professional Baseball Players, which became known as the National Association, the Association, or NA, in 1871, Spalding joined the Boston Red Stockings ( precursor club to the modern Atlanta Braves ) and was highly successful ; winning 206 games ( and losing only 53 ) as a pitcher and batting. 323 as a hitter.

Sanders was also famous for playing on major league baseball teams ( the New York Yankees and the Atlanta Braves ) while simultaneously playing in the NFL.

Arizona had postseason victories over the St. Louis Cardinals ( 3 – 2 in the NLDS ) and the Atlanta Braves ( 4 – 1 in the NLCS ) to advance to the World Series where, in the wake of the September 11 terrorist attacks in New York City, they beat the three-time reigning champions, the New York Yankees, 4 to 3, to become the youngest expansion franchise to win the World Series ( in just their fourth season of play ).

Orlando Hudson underwent season-ending surgery on his left wrist August 9 in the wake of a collision with catcher Brian McCann of the Atlanta Braves.

Mark Hendrickson of the Florida Marlins intentionally walking the Atlanta Braves ' Yunel Escobar in 2008.

Craig Kimbrel of the Atlanta Braves and Jeremy Hellickson of the Tampa Bay Rays are the most recent winners.

The Atlanta Braves have currently played in the most NL division series with eleven appearances.

Ruth retired in 1935 after a short stint with the Boston Braves, and the following year, he became one of the first five players to be elected into the National Baseball Hall of Fame.

Other names were sometimes used before Boston officially adopted the nickname " Braves " in ; the club eventually left Boston for Milwaukee and is now playing in Atlanta, Georgia.

Johnson would be dealt along with Johnny Oates to the Atlanta Braves for catcher and 1971 National League Rookie of the Year Earl Williams.

When the Boston Braves relocated to Milwaukee in 1953, Selig switched alligences, and eventually became the team's largest public stockholder.

Selig was devastated when he learned that the Braves were going to leave Milwaukee in favor of Atlanta.

In 1965, when the Braves left Milwaukee, he divested his stock in the team.

As a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves, Selig founded the organization Teams, Inc, in an attempt to prevent the majority owners ( based out of Chicago ) from moving the club to a larger television market.

The home ballparks for the Texas Rangers and Atlanta Braves were both available to host the games.

Research indicates that this legend is mostly untrue, and that the new name was a play on the name of the Boston Braves, then known as the " Miracle Braves " after going from last place on July 4 to a sweep in the 1914 World Series.

On October 10, 1948, Game 5 of the World Series against the Boston Braves drew over 84, 000.

In the series, the Indians defeated the Boston Braves four games to two for their first championship in 28 years.

Eventually, the Indians traded Barker to the Atlanta Braves for Brett Butler and Brook Jacoby, who would become mainstays of the team for the remainder of the decade.

The World Series ended in disappointment with the Indians falling in six games to the Atlanta Braves.

The Cubs are one of the two remaining charter members of the National League ( the other being the Atlanta Braves ) and one of two active major league clubs based in Chicago, the other being the Chicago White Sox of the American League.