Braves

Braves typically refers to the Atlanta Braves, a Major League Baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. The franchise began in 1871 in Boston, later moved to Milwaukee in 1953, and relocated to Atlanta in 1966. The team has won four World Series championships: 1914 (Boston), 1957 (Milwaukee), and 1995 and 2021 (Atlanta). They compete in the National League East division, and their home games are played at Truist Park in the Atlanta suburb of Cumberland since 2017; Turner Field hosted the team from 1997 to 2016.

Throughout its history, the Braves organization has been associated with a number of Hall of Fame players, including Hank Aaron, Eddie Mathews, and Warren Spahn, as well as stars from the 1990s and 2000s such as Chipper Jones, Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, and John Smoltz. The franchise is noted for its long-standing presence in Major League Baseball and for periods of sustained playoff success, particularly during the 1990s and early 2000s, followed by continued competitive teams in later years.

In addition to the Atlanta Braves, the name Braves is used by other sports teams and organizations as a nickname, reflecting associations with courage or warriors. The term’s use has occasionally drawn discussion about the use of Indigenous imagery in team branding, and such debates have influenced branding decisions for various teams over time.

Overall, the Braves name in professional sports most often denotes the baseball franchise with a deep history across multiple cities, along with broader cultural usage of the term in team nicknames.

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