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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]
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.
Ownership history: He inherited the team after his father's death in 1991, but his dad, Paul, didn't own the majority—in 2011, Mike purchased an additional 30% of the team's shares for $200 ...
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 ...
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In 1976, Turner bought the Atlanta Braves, and in 1977, he bought the Atlanta Hawks, partially to provide programming for WTCG. [ 22 ] [ 23 ] Using the rechristened WTBS superstation's status to broadcast Braves games into nearly every home in North America, Turner turned the Braves into a household name even before their run of success in the ...