![]() ![]() Ward named the club after the owner, James Gaffney. ![]() The team became the Braves for the first time before the 1912 season. Media-driven nickname changes to the Doves in 1907 and the Rustlers in 1911 did nothing to change the National League club's luck. Up to that point they had been called by the generic "Americans". The American League club's owner, Charles Taylor, wasted little time in adopting Red Sox as his team's first official nickname. In 1907, the Beaneaters temporarily eliminated the last bit of red from their stockings because their manager thought the red dye could cause wounds to become infected, as noted in The Sporting News Baseball Guide in the 1940s. They only managed one winning season from 1900 to 1913 and lost 100 games five times. Many of the Beaneaters' stars jumped to the new team, which offered contracts that the Beaneaters' owners did not even bother to match. The team was decimated when the American League's new Boston entry set up shop in 1901. Stars of those 1890s Beaneater teams included the "Heavenly Twins", Hugh Duffy and Tommy McCarthy, as well as "Slidin'" Billy Hamilton. The 1898 team finished 102–47, a club record for wins that would stand for almost a century. Boston came to be called the Beaneaters in 1883 while retaining red as the team color. For most of that time, their manager was Frank Selee. The Red Caps/Beaneaters were one of the league's dominant teams during the 19th century, winning a total of eight pennants. Īlthough somewhat stripped of talent in the National League's inaugural year, Boston bounced back to win the 18 pennants. The Boston Red Caps played in the first game in the history of the National League, on Saturday, April 22, 1876, defeating the Philadelphia Athletics, 6–5. The team became one of the National League's charter franchises in 1876, sometimes called the " Red Caps" (as a new Cincinnati Red Stockings club was another charter member). Led by the Wright brothers, Barnes, and Spalding, the Red Stockings dominated the National Association, winning four of that league's five championships. Two young players hired away from the Forest City club of Rockford, Illinois, turned out to be the biggest stars during the NAPBBP years: pitcher Al Spalding, founder of Spalding sporting goods, and second baseman Ross Barnes. The only other team that has been organized as long, the Chicago Cubs, did not play for the two years following the Great Chicago Fire of 1871. The original Boston Red Stockings team and its successors can lay claim to being the oldest continuously playing team in American professional sports. Player-manager Harry Wright, with brother George and two other Cincinnati players, then went to Boston, Massachusetts at the invitation of Boston Red Stockings founder Ivers Whitney Adams to form the nucleus of the Boston Red Stockings, a charter member of the National Association of Professional Base Ball Players (NAPBBP). ![]() The Cincinnati Red Stockings, established in 1869 as the first openly all-professional baseball team, voted to dissolve after the 1870 season. Main article: Boston Braves (baseball) 1871–1913 King Kelly cigarette card (Goodwin & Company, 1888) At the end of the 2022 season, the Braves' overall win–loss record is 10,921–10,818 (.502). The Braves are the only Major League Baseball franchise to have won the World Series in three different home cities. The club has won an MLB record 22 divisional titles, 18 National League pennants, and four World Series championships. The Braves are one of the two remaining National League charter franchises that debuted in 1876. From 1991 to 2005, the Braves were one of the most successful teams in baseball, winning an unprecedented 14 consecutive division titles, making an MLB record eight consecutive National League Championship Series appearances, and producing one of the greatest pitching rotations in the history of baseball including Hall of Famers Greg Maddux, John Smoltz, and Tom Glavine. The Braves did not find much success in Atlanta until 1991. The club's owners moved the team to Atlanta, Georgia, in 1966. Despite the team's success, fan attendance declined. With a roster of star players like Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and Warren Spahn, the Milwaukee Braves won the World Series in 1957. Īfter 81 seasons and one World Series title in Boston, the club moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin in 1953. The Braves are the oldest continuously operating professional sports franchise in America. The club was known by various names until the franchise settled on the Boston Braves in 1912. The Braves were founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871, as the Boston Red Stockings. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East division. The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. ![]()
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