The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball
team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The Braves are a member of the
Eastern Division of Major League Baseball's National League. From
1997 to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field.
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
self-styled as "America's Team" in reference to the
team's games being broadcast on the nationally available TBS until
the 2008 season, gaining a wide fanbase.
From 1991-2005, the Braves were one of
the most successful franchises in baseball, winning their division
title an unprecedented 14 consecutive times in that period
(omitting the strike-shortened 1994 season in which there were
no official division champions). The Braves advanced to the World
Series five times in the 1990s, winning the title in 1995, and
earning the moniker "the Team of the '90s". In their
history, the Braves have won 16 divisional titles, nine National
League pennants, and three World Series championshipsin
1914 as the Boston Braves, in 1957 as the Milwaukee Braves, and
in 1995 while in Atlanta. The Braves are the only MLB franchise
to have won the Series in three different home cities.
One of the National League's two remaining
charter franchises (the other being the Chicago Cubs), the club
was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1871 as the Boston Red
Stockings (not to be confused with the American League's Boston
Red Sox or the NL Central's Cincinnati Reds). The team moved to
Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1953 and became the Milwaukee Braves.
In 1966, the team moved to Atlanta. The team's tenure in Atlanta
is famous for Hank Aaron's breaking of the career home run record
in 1974; the new record stood until Barry Bonds broke it in 2007.