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| - The Boston Braves (later known as the Milwaukee Braves, and then the Atlanta Braves) were an American baseball team that existed in the 20th century. One of their players was Eddie Stanky. In 2372, Benjamin Sisko watched a 1949 baseball game between the Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers in Deep Space 9's holosuites. Jake Sisko later joined him. (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule) In 2375, Jake wore an Atlanta Braves baseball cap during the Niners' training session for their game against the Logicians. (DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
- The Boston Braves were a professional team in Boston, Massachusetts. They were a member of the American Hockey League from 1971 to 1974. The early 1970s saw an unprecedented boom in the popularity of hockey in the Boston area, fuelled by the success of the Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito-led Boston Bruins. The Bruins had sold out all of their home games at the Boston Garden for years, and the team owners thought that placing their minor-league affiliate in the same arena, made sense on several levels. Previously, the Bruins affiliate was the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League.
- 1914 was the team's best season in the twentieth century. After posting a dismal record of 4-18 in the first month of the season, and owning a last-place 24-40 record in July, the team abruptly turned around their performance, going 70-19 for the remaining 89 games of the year, to end the season with a record of 94-59. They had been so low in the standings that, even with their blistering .787 winning percentage, they did not take first place until September 8. Nevertheless, they finished 10.5 games ahead of the second-place New York Giants and swept Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's in the World Series.
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| - The Boston Braves were a professional team in Boston, Massachusetts. They were a member of the American Hockey League from 1971 to 1974. The early 1970s saw an unprecedented boom in the popularity of hockey in the Boston area, fuelled by the success of the Bobby Orr and Phil Esposito-led Boston Bruins. The Bruins had sold out all of their home games at the Boston Garden for years, and the team owners thought that placing their minor-league affiliate in the same arena, made sense on several levels. Previously, the Bruins affiliate was the Oklahoma City Blazers of the Central Hockey League. The team was named after the National League baseball team that had played in Boston until 1953 — which had been owned by Charles F. Adams, founder of the Bruins, during the 1920s. The first season of the AHL Braves, under coach Bep Guidolin, was wildly successful. Behind a powerful club led by future big league stars Dan Bouchard and Rich Leduc, and with other veteran minor-leaguers and future NHL players such as Doug Roberts, Ross Brooks, Nick Beverley, Garry Peters and Don Tannahill, the club tied for first place in its division with the powerful Nova Scotia Voyageurs with a 41-21-14 mark, while proving popular enough in Boston to set league records for single-game and single-season attendance that survived for decades. In its second season, however, competition from the WHA's New England Whalers served to saturate the market. Furthermore, NHL expansion cost the team its best player, Bouchard, who had been picked by the Atlanta Flames, while WHA defections caused the recall of Brooks to the parent club and Roberts and Peters to the rival league. While scoring declined only slightly, the defense was notably poorer. The team still finished second in the division with a 34-29-13 mark, but attendance had nearly halved. In the Braves' third and final season, the defense collapsed to the point where the team finished out of the playoffs after a 23-40-13 record. With attendance dwindling further and the ebbing of the hockey boom itself in New England, Bruins' management decided to suspend the team; the next season saw the Bruins affiliating with the Rochester Americans. The Bruins maintained the franchise's existence for many years, paying a nominal fee to the league to keep it dormant, finally selling its rights to the Winnipeg Jets in 1987 so that the Jets could move it to the Maritimes to become the Moncton Hawks.
- The Boston Braves (later known as the Milwaukee Braves, and then the Atlanta Braves) were an American baseball team that existed in the 20th century. One of their players was Eddie Stanky. In 2372, Benjamin Sisko watched a 1949 baseball game between the Braves and the Brooklyn Dodgers in Deep Space 9's holosuites. Jake Sisko later joined him. (DS9 novel: The 34th Rule) In 2375, Jake wore an Atlanta Braves baseball cap during the Niners' training session for their game against the Logicians. (DS9 episode: "Take Me Out to the Holosuite")
- 1914 was the team's best season in the twentieth century. After posting a dismal record of 4-18 in the first month of the season, and owning a last-place 24-40 record in July, the team abruptly turned around their performance, going 70-19 for the remaining 89 games of the year, to end the season with a record of 94-59. They had been so low in the standings that, even with their blistering .787 winning percentage, they did not take first place until September 8. Nevertheless, they finished 10.5 games ahead of the second-place New York Giants and swept Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's in the World Series. The Braves were competitive in 1915 and 1916, but quickly lost talent and endured long stretches of mediocrity throughout the 1920s and 1930s, during which time they lost market revenue to their cross-town rivals, the American League's evil Boston Red Sox. They would not have another first-place season till 1948, when they lost the World Series to the Cleveland Indians in six games. Following the 1952 season, the team relocated to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and from there to Atlanta, Georgia in 1966.
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