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Braves

Atlanta Braves
2017 Atlanta Braves season
Established in 1871
Based in Atlanta since 1966
Atlanta Braves.svg Atlanta Braves Insignia.svg
Team logo Cap insignia
Major league affiliations
Current uniform
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Retired numbers
Colors
  • Navy blue, scarlet red, white
              
Name
Other nicknames
  • The Bravos, The Team of the 90s, America's Team
Ballpark
Major league titles
World Series titles (3)
NL Pennants (17)
East Division titles (12)
West Division titles (5)
Wild card berths (2)
Front office
Owner(s) Liberty Media
Manager Brian Snitker
General Manager John Coppolella
President of Baseball Operations John Hart

The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball franchise based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The franchise competes in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member of the National League (NL) East division. The Braves played home games at Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium from 1966 to 1996, and Turner Field from 1997 to 2016. Since 2017, their home stadium has been SunTrust Park, a new stadium 10 miles (16 km) northwest of downtown Atlanta in the Cumberland neighborhood of Cobb County. The Braves play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida. In January 2017, the Braves announced a formal agreement to move their spring training home to North Port, Florida.

The "Braves" name, which was first used in 1912, originates from a term for a Native American warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and often referred to as "America's Team" in reference to the team's games being broadcast on the nationally available TBS from the 1970s until 2007, giving the team a nationwide fan base.

From 1991 to 2005, the Braves were one of the most successful franchises in baseball, winning division titles an unprecedented 14 consecutive times in that period (omitting the strike-shortened 1994 season in which there were no official division champions). The Braves won the NL West 1991–93 and the NL East 1995–2005, and they returned to the playoffs as the National League Wild Card in 2010. The Braves advanced to the World Series five times in the 1990s, winning the title in 1995. Since their debut in the National League in 1876, the franchise has won 16 divisional titles, 17 National League pennants, and three World Series championships—in 1914 as the Boston Braves, in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves, and in 1995 in Atlanta. The Braves are the only Major League Baseball franchise to have won the World Series in three different home cities.


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