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Years Ivers Whitney Adams: 1871 John Conkey: 1872 Charles H. Porter: 1873–1874 Nicholas Apollonio: 1875–1876 Arthur Soden: 1877–1907 George Dovey: 1907–1909 John Dovey: 1909–1910 William Hepburn Russell: 1910–1911 John Montgomery Ward: 1911–1912 James E. Gaffney: 1912–1916 Percy Haughton: 1916–1918 [8] George W. Grant: 1919 ...
On June 28, 2013, the Atlanta Braves retired former third baseman Chipper Jones' jersey, number 10, before the game against the Arizona Diamondbacks. He was honored before 51,300 fans at Turner Field in Atlanta. [45] He served as a staple of the Braves franchise for 19 years before announcing his retirement at the beginning of the 2012 season.
The 1959 season ended in a tie with the Los Angeles Dodgers, who defeated the Braves in a playoff. The ensuing years saw fluctuating success, including the Braves finishing fifth in 1963, their first time in the "second division". [58] In 1962, team owner Louis Perini sold the Braves to a Chicago-based group led by William Bartholomay. [58]
Atlanta Falcons: Arthur Blank. Age: 81. Ownership history: He purchased the Falcons in 2002 for $545 million. Other career highlights: He co-founded Home Depot!
a The Atlanta Braves sale in 2007 to Liberty Media was part of a complex swap of cash, stock, magazine holdings, and the Braves, in which Time Warner sent the Braves, a hobbyist publishing company, and $980,000,000 to Liberty in exchange for approximately 68.5 million shares of Time Warner stock, at the time worth $1.48 billion. It was ...
William Conrad Bartholomay (August 11, 1928 – March 25, 2020) was an American business executive who made his living in the insurance industry in Chicago but became widely known as the owner who brought Major League Baseball to the Southeastern United States with the Atlanta Braves in 1966.
Two weeks before announcing the Harris extension, the Braves handed out the largest contract in franchise history to Austin Riley — a guaranteed 10-year, $212 million deal with an option for an ...
The Braves were managed by Billy Southworth from 1946 to 1949, and again from 1950 to 1951. Southworth led the team into the 1948 World Series, which ended the Braves' 34-year postseason drought; the World Series ended in a losing result for the Braves. In 1953, the team moved from Boston to Milwaukee, where it was known as the Milwaukee Braves.