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Rathbun, Saliers among those set for Braves Big Night at Turner Field
This summer, in addition to the fireworks and fly balls, Turner Field is setting the table for foodies as well. On Wednesday, Braves reps told us about the debut of Big Night Out, their summer series...
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3. Stay for the fireworks at the Ted
In the predawn hours of July 5, 1985, in the eighteenth inning of a twice-rain-delayed game against the Mets, an unassuming Braves relief pitcher named Rick Camp smacked a two-out solo home run to send...
View ArticleSuspicious device disabled at Turner Field
With security already intensified following yesterday’s attack in Boston, APD investigated a suspicious device found near Turner Field early this afternoon. I was on the phone with Frank Redding, who...
View ArticleFrom Streetcar Suburb to Stadium Site
1865 Summerhill is settled by emancipated slaves. The community’s early institutions include Allen Temple AME Church. Summerhill is home to the city’s first public elementary school for black children....
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The Other 284 Days
This article originally appeared in our July 2013 issue. Opening Day. 5 p.m. The first pitch inside Turner Field was still two hours off, but outside Justin Doll had been tailgating since 2:30. “Oh,...
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I have been to major league baseball games in Atlanta, Detroit, Chicago, Boston, New York, Denver, and Cleveland. This isn’t that many, I realize—there are thousands of baseball fans, after all, who...
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July 2013: Top Doctors
FEATURES Top Doctors Find your next physician with our annual guide to the doctors whom other doctors trust most. PLUS: Tips on how to spend your healthcare dollars wisely. > Available in the...
View ArticleWill the Waffle House luck hold for a 13th Atlanta Braves win?
You can find some pretty strange lucky charms when it comes to sports—Michael Jordan’s old college shorts, the St. Louis Squirrel, Les Miles eating grass—but a lucky Waffle House? The Braves have gone...
View ArticleThe Atlanta Braves are moving to Cobb County and everyone is kind of stunned
For more than half a century, the Atlanta Braves have rented a prime chunk of property just south of Downtown. To accommodate this prized tenant, city and county officials have demolished entire...
View ArticleMayor Reed to Braves: You’re my favorite team–I just can’t give you enough...
Last Wednesday, at 7:39 in the morning, Mayor Kasim Reed got a text from Mike Plant, executive vice president of business operations for the Atlanta Braves. Reed wasn’t hung over (he doesn’t drink),...
View ArticleBraves Relocation Update: The city’s timeline of what happened
In response to criticism that his administration was paying more attention to the Falcons than to the Braves, thus letting the latter slink away to Cobb County, Mayor Kasim Reed yesterday released a...
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Commentary: The core problem with Cobb
It couldn’t have been easy to be a Cobb resident this week. Since Monday’s surprise announcement of the Braves’ impending relocation to a vacant lot near Cumberland Mall, the prevailing attitude from...
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Commentary: Dear Braves fans, stop taking it out on Cobb
Listen you ITP people, there’s no reason to get personal. We Cobb residents didn’t ask for a baseball stadium any more than you Atlantans lobbied to kick the Braves out. Please direct your anger at...
View ArticleThe Braves asked for an awful lot-and Cobb is evidently prepared to give it
The Cobb County Commission’s official vote on the Braves stadium deal happens next week (yes, just two days before Thanksgiving). The county yesterday released the “Memorandum of Understanding” that...
View ArticleWhat are you doing this weekend? November 22 – 24
Thanksgiving is less than a week away. So you only have six days to complain about the holiday music on the radio and decorations in all the stores before you start sounding like you’re ninety and...
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LEAD baseball players weigh in on the Braves move
In our November Groundbreakers feature, we honored C.J. and Kelli Stewart, founders of L.E.A.D., Inc., a local program that uses baseball to inspire young men to become athletes, scholars, and leaders....
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SweetWater partners with Atlanta Braves, cans at Turner Field
SweetWater has confirmed their new can line will be available at Turner Field, and the brewery is now the exclusive craft beer sponsor coming into the 2014 season. The cans will give the brewery more...
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Atlanta Braves break ground on Cobb’s SunTrust Park
It was party time in East Cobb, Tuesday morning be damned, courtesy of the county’s newest corporate citizen. The Braves laid down AstroTurf beneath the dance hall-sized tent they pitched in the middle...
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ATLast, Outkast to perform for home crowd
Looking around the city, it is sometimes easy to forget that Atlanta hosted the 1996 Summer Olympic Games, with little tangible evidence of the event left standing. And if you listen to local radio,...
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With just two seasons left at Turner Field before they decamp to Cobb, a look...
The Braves will leave Atlanta for Cobb County after the 2016 season. But in essence, they’re already gone. During the off-season, team executives cut three of the top four sluggers—Justin Upton, Evan...
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