Old Atlanta Braves Stadium

Originally built as centennial olympic stadium in 1996 to serve as the centerpiece of the 1996 summer olympics the stadium was converted into a baseball park to serve as the new home of the team. Before that the atlanta braves played at the atlanta fulton county stadium from 1966 1996. Braves fans in the georgia state where able to drive to 755 hank aaron drive and pre game in the parking lot before the game.

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The ballpark was set a bit outside of downtown atlanta but was accessible by car and bus on game day.

Old atlanta braves stadium. The atlanta braves are the oldest continually operating team in major league baseball. Atlanta when atlanta mayor kasim reed found out a neighboring community had made a generous offer to help finance a new braves stadium he balked and said the city simply couldn t compete. Part of the parking lot for the new turner field is the outline. The braves and expansion atlanta falcons of the national football league.

Felipe alou was the first braves to bat at atlanta stadium and his son moises alou of the montreal expos was the last regular season in september 1966 the nfl s expansion atlanta falcons joined the braves as tenants until they departed to the georgia dome after the 1991 season. In 2017 the team will move to suntrust park a new stadium complex in the cumberland district of cobb county just northwest of atlanta. While the atlanta braves make plans to move a few miles closer to chattanooga in 2017 their current home turner field will be left behind. Turner field was a baseball stadium located in atlanta georgia from 1997 to 2016 it served as the home ballpark to the atlanta braves of major league baseball mlb.

The braves played home games at turner field in atlanta from 1997 to 2016 and play spring training games in lake buena vista florida. Now the city of atlanta says it plans to demolish the. The official website of the atlanta braves with the most up to date information on scores schedule stats tickets and team news. Turner field in atlanta opened in 1997.

The launching pad atlanta stadium. They had connections to the cincinnati red stockings an original independent professional team from 1869 to 1870. The braves became a franchise in 1871 and were known as the boston red stockings or red caps in the national association. Atlanta fulton county stadium often referred to as fulton county stadium and originally named atlanta stadium was a multi purpose stadium in the southeastern united states located in atlanta it was built to attract a major league baseball team and in 1966 succeeded when the milwaukee braves relocated from wisconsin.

Turner field s location was in atlanta georgia in the united states.