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What is Atlanta Braves? / Facts
- The Braves played home games at Turner Field in Atlanta from 1997 to 2016, and play spring training games in Lake Buena Vista, Florida
- In 2017, the team will move to SunTrust Park, a new stadium complex in the Cumberland district of Cobb County just northwest of Atlanta
- 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
- The Braves and the Chicago Cubs are the National League's two remaining charter franchises
- The Braves were founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings (not to be confused with the American League's Boston Red Sox) The team states it is "the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America
- After various name changes, the team eventually began operating as the Boston Braves, which lasted for most of the first half of the 20th century
- Then, in 1953, the team moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin and became the Milwaukee Braves, followed by the final move to Atlanta in 1966
- The team's tenure in Atlanta is noted for Hank Aaron breaking Babe Ruth's career home run record in 1974
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