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 to the present, the Braves have played in Turner Field.
The "Braves" name originates from the term for a Native American warrior. They are nicknamed "the Bravos", and "America's Team", the latter a 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 championships — in 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 club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in . Then 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 and became the Milwaukee Braves. In , 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 .
