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.

This makes the Cubs, along with the Braves who were also founded in 1871, one of the two oldest active teams in major North American sports.

( The Atlanta Braves also did this in 1991, in the National League ).

While he has two championship rings with the 1999 – 2000 Yankees, Clemens has also been on the losing end of four World Series ( 1986 Red Sox, 2001 and 2003 Yankees, and 2005 Astros ), which is tied with Tom Glavine and John Smoltz ( who were both on the Braves when they lost the ' 91, ' 92, ' 96 and ' 99 World Series ) for the most among active players.

* Rochester Braves, a pro football team in 1936 also known as the Syracuse Braves

It also hosted the 1991 World Series as the Minnesota Twins defeated the Atlanta Braves.

Growing up, he was a competitive runner and also batted. 492 for the Junior Intercounty Baseball League's Brantford CKCP Braves in the summer of 1980.

Like Torre, he also managed the Braves and the Dodgers.

It is the hometown of the multi-platinum selling alternative rock / post-grunge band Collective Soul and home to one of the youngest starting pitchers ever to play for the Atlanta Braves, Kyle Davies, who also graduated from Stockbridge High School.

WSTP, " Newsradio 1490 ", is an AM news / talk radio station whose programming also includes broadcasts of Atlanta Braves baseball games and those of the University of North Carolina Tar Heels, as well as some National Football League games.

It is also home of Retired Proffesional Baseball player Dwight Smith who played for the Atlanta Braves and Chicago Cubs during his Career.

Dick Rauch also returned to the fold, resuming his position as head coach. Based at Boston's Braves Field, the Bulldogs nonetheless had a two-game swan song in their old stomping grounds, defeating both the Buffalo Bison on October 27 at Minersville Park and the Newark Tornadoes on October 29 at Mitchell Field.

With the Braves in 1928, Hornsby was again the league's most productive hitter ; he won his seventh batting title with a. 387 average, also leading the league in on-base percentage (. 498 ), slugging percentage (. 632 ), and walks ( 107 ).

Ronglu also had an ally, general Dong Fuxiang, who commanded 10, 000 Muslim Kansu Braves of the imperial army, including generals such as Ma Fuxiang and Ma Fulu.

Playing in the decade before the Braves began their dominance of the National League East, Murphy also made his only postseason appearance in 1982, though the eventual World Series-champion St. Louis Cardinals eliminated the Braves in the first round of the playoffs.

After his trade ( which also included Ralph Terry, Woody Held, and Bob Martyn ) to the Kansas City Athletics ( see Altercations below ), Martin's career declined, with several short stints with six different teams over the final 4½ seasons of his playing career: the Athletics, the Detroit Tigers, the Cleveland Indians, the Cincinnati Reds, the Milwaukee Braves and the Minnesota Twins.

Meyer, an occasional fisher, once called fishing the " apostolic recreation ", and was also known to attend a Milwaukee Braves baseball game.

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 2007, there was a major shake-up of the Braves broadcasters: Don Sutton departed to be the full-time broadcaster with the Washington Nationals, Skip Caray and Pete Van Wieren went to the Braves Radio Network full time, and Joe Simpson signed with Fox Broadcasting Company to be a color analyst on FSN South and Sports South, and also signed to call a limited schedule of games on TBS with Chip.

Skip was also known for his tendency to identify the hometowns of fans who catch foul balls during Braves games in jest.

Caray also delivered the call for the Braves ' World Series win in 1995, as Mark Wohlers got Carlos Baerga to fly out to Marquis Grissom to end the game:

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 ).

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.

Two years earlier, Hampton had won 22 games and finished second in voting for the Cy Young Award as a member of the Houston Astros, while Neagle had been a 20-game winner in 1997 for the Atlanta Braves and had won fifteen games in 2000.

This was the first time Aaron had played any position other than shortstop or second base with the Braves.

The Twins won by scoring a run in the bottom of the 10th inning, and Morris had pitched a shutout for all ten innings against the Braves.

Milwaukee had previously been a National League city when its team was the Milwaukee Braves ( 1953 – 1965 ).

Selig had been a minority owner of the Milwaukee Braves and had led unsuccessful efforts to keep them from moving to Atlanta, and had been working ever since then to bring the majors back to Milwaukee.

Milwaukee had formerly been a National League town, having been the home of the Braves for 13 seasons ( 1953 – 65 ).

In the 1998 NLCS, the Padres faced the Atlanta Braves, who had won the National League East with an astonishing 106 – 56 record.

( Four years earlier, in 1966, the National League's Milwaukee Braves had moved to Atlanta.

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 Twins and their opponent, the Atlanta Braves, had each finished last in their respective divisions in the year before winning their league pennant, something that had never happened before.

" The Indians defeated the Braves in six games and with it, Cleveland had its first World Series championship since the 1920 season.

On July 22, he had his final NL hit in a 9 – 5 loss to the Braves.

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.

Chip later returned to work with his father Skip on Atlanta Braves broadcasts, where he had worked for a while in the early 1990s.

The existing Right Field Pavilion was squared off on the west side and filled in on the east side where a section had been removed to accommodate the Braves Field right field foul pole and bullpens.

The Padres played host to the Atlanta Braves on April 20, 1978, and with two out in the top of the fourth inning, Atlanta's Jeff Burroughs hit a ground ball up the middle.

On November 20, 1947, Wilhelm was drafted by the New York Giants from the Braves in the 1947 minor league draft.

In 2003, Juan Catalan, a resident of Los Angeles, was cleared of premeditated murder charges against a material witness ( a crime eligible for capital punishment ) after outtake footage shot for the " Carpool Lane " episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm showed him and his daughter attending the Los Angeles Dodgers vs. Atlanta Braves baseball game some 20 miles from the crime-scene at the time of the murder, resulting in a $ 320, 000 settlement against the City of Los Angeles.

This addressed saves such as Ron Taylor's in a 20 – 6 New York Mets win over the Atlanta Braves.

Niekro pitched for 20 seasons for the Atlanta Braves ( two of those seasons when the team was still in Milwaukee ).

On June 20, 2009, Beckett recorded his first complete game shutout in three years against the Atlanta Braves in a duel against former Red Sox pitcher Derek Lowe.

First signed by the Boston Braves before the 1940 season, Spahn reached the major leagues in 1942 at the age of 20.

In the NBA, the most points ever scored in a fourth quarter was 58 by the Buffalo Braves ( at Boston Celtics ), Oct. 20, 1972.

After his release by the Braves in May 1941, he signed with the Leaksville-Draper-Spray Triplets of the class-D Bi-State League, where he batted. 332 with 20 home runs in just 74 games.

After playing in the minor leagues, he made his major league debut with the Braves on August 20, 1981.

For 20 years, from 1984 to 2004, the Mississippi Braves were based in Greenville, South Carolina, and known as the Greenville Braves.

Ledezma was traded from the Tigers to the Atlanta Braves for Macay McBride on June 20, 2007.

With Pérez as his catcher, Maddux ended the year with a 2. 20 earned run average, second best in the National League, as the Braves once again clinched the National League East Division crown.

Estrada was acquired by the Atlanta Braves from the Phillies on December 20, 2002, for Kevin Millwood in a move that was said to be financially motivated, since the Braves could not pay Millwood's salary.

He pitched for the first time in 2009 for the Mets late in the season on August 20, in a game against the Atlanta Braves.

Kreamalmeyer was named first team All-Missouri Valley Conference as a junior and senior, and finished his career with 26 goals and 20 assists for the Braves.

In, Avery lowered his ERA to 3. 20, but his record fell off to 11 – 11, mostly due to the Braves ' inability to score runs when he pitched.

He was released by the Braves on March 20, 1912, after 44 – 107 record in one season ; Tenney was paid not to manage for the second year on his contract.

On July 20, 2006, Wickman was traded to the Atlanta Braves for Single-A Rome catcher Max Ramírez.

On September 20, 2006, Wickman signed a one-year $ 6. 5 million contract extension to stay with the Atlanta Braves for the 2007 season.

Carrasco signed with the Atlanta Braves on June 20, 2012.

He made his first appearance for the Triple A Gwinnett Braves on June 20.