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.

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

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

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 Rockies were broken up after the 1997 season when an aging Galarraga signed with the Atlanta Braves as a free agent.

The Rockies went 73 – 89 in both years that Hampton and Neagle were in Colorado, and the amount of money owed them ( the Rockies paid a sizable portion of Hampton's salary even after he was traded to the Atlanta Braves ) crippled the team for the next several years.

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.

The Cubs qualified as the NL Wild Card team, but were swept by the Atlanta Braves in the NLDS.

They were in the midst of a three-team pennant race with the Dodgers and Braves.

The Atlanta Braves were owned by Time Warner, a longtime Cravath client, who objected to his representation of the Yankees.

Ronglu and Prince Qing sent food to the legations, and used their Manchu Bannermen to attack the Muslim Kansu Braves of Dong Fuxiang and the Boxers who were besieging the foreigners.

Before 2005, the divisions were East and West, but the move of the Greenville Braves to Mississippi after the 2004 season led to a realignment.

The original seven charter teams were the Salem Senators, Eugene Emeralds, Yakima Bears, Spokane Indians, Tri-City Braves, Wenatchee Chiefs, and the Lewiston Broncs.

With him, the 76ers were back in the playoffs after a five-year absence, and even though they lost to the Buffalo Braves in three games, a " Doctor " would come along and get the team healthy enough to stay in perennial contention.

The Richmond Braves were the Triple-A affiliate of the Atlanta Braves and played in the International League.

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.

Printed copies of the petition and Facebook group membership were mailed to Richmond Braves general manager Bruce Baldwin, Atlanta Braves Vice President Mike Plant, Richmond Mayor ( and former Virginia governor ) L. Douglas Wilder and Richmond City Council President Bill Pantele.

After only five starts, one win and a 6. 04 ERA, the Athletics traded him to the Atlanta Braves for Orlando Cepeda ; he went only 3 – 5 for Atlanta, and his overall totals for 1972 were 4 – 7 with a 6. 37 ERA.

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.

Notable members of this team were all-time Braves leading scorer Larry Mitchell, Breault, Paul Duford, Tim Dubas, Dan Nummikoski, Steve Rachwal, Chad Badawey and Rob White.

The late 80's and early 90's were not good to the Braves, who failed to make the playoffs multiple times.

The Braves were given the duty of hosting the Fred Page Cup, the Eastern Canadian Junior " A " championship.

The Macon Braves were a class-A minor league baseball team associated with the Atlanta Braves.

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

In what was a dramatic five game series, their NLDS victory over the Atlanta Braves was the franchise's first postseason series win since they went to the World Series in 1908, when they beat the Detroit Tigers in five games.

The Braves would lose again the following night, and the Rockies 10 – 6 win set their magic number at 1.

The Marlins closed the season by sweeping the Braves, and their final record for the season stood at 83 – 79.

After the 2010 season, the Marlins continued their string of dealing players when their contracts became too much to bear, dealing power-hitting second basemen Dan Uggla to the Atlanta Braves after his insistence on an extra year in his possible contract extension went nowhere with the front office.

A dramatic season end included wins in 10 of their last 12 games, but the Astros missed a playoff appearance when they lost the final game of the season to the Atlanta Braves.

In 1953, the Braves promoted him to the Jacksonville Braves, their Class-A affiliate in the South Atlantic League.

The Atlanta Braves won all three of their games in Atlanta, and the Twins won all four of their games in Minnesota.

In 1970, the Portland Trail Blazers, Cleveland Cavaliers, and Buffalo Braves ( now the Los Angeles Clippers ) all made their debuts expanding the league to 17.

The team continued this run of success with wins over the Colorado Rockies in the NLDS ( 3 games to 1 ) and the Los Angeles Dodgers in the NLCS ( 4 games to 1 ), to become the first Phillies team to win back-to-back pennants and the first National League team since the 1996 Atlanta Braves to have an opportunity to defend their World Series title.

On September 17, 2011, the Phillies won their fifth consecutive East Division championship, and on September 28, during the final game of the season, the team set a franchise record for victories in a season with 102 by beating the Atlanta Braves in 13 innings, denying their division rivals a potential Wild Card berth.

But despite the Giants ' great record, the Atlanta Braves — fueled by solid seasons from David Justice, Ron Gant, Deion Sanders and their midseason acquisition of Fred McGriff from the San Diego Padres — came back from a ten-game deficit to the Giants to win the NL West by a single game.

Using the rechristened WTBS ' superstation status to beam Braves games into nearly every home in North America, Turner made the Braves a household name even before their run of success in the 1990s and early 2000s.

" In 1977, he sent manager Dave Bristol on a " scouting trip " so Turner could manage the Braves ; he ran the team for one game ( a loss ) before National League president Chub Feeney told him managers are forbidden to own financial interest in their club.

However, the city gained another American Association franchise the next year, when the Boston Braves transferred to Milwaukee in March 1953, displacing their farm club, the Milwaukee Brewers, which then shifted to Toledo as the " Sox ".

The modern Chicago Cubs and Atlanta Braves franchises trace their histories back to the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players in the early 1870s.

Two current major league franchises, the Atlanta Braves and the Chicago Cubs, can trace their origins to the National Association.

The Clippers won 12 of their next 14 games, including road wins over the defending champion Dallas Mavericks and the Western-Conference-leading Oklahoma City Thunder, clinching only their fifth playoff birth since their 1976 conference semi-finals loss to the Boston Celtics ( the last time they made the playoffs as the Buffalo Braves ) before a dominating home win over the Oklahoma City Thunder on April 16, 2012.