We covered the anniversary of the founding of the team just yesterday, which makes today’s number even more notable. The Atlanta Braves just recently marked the 50th year of their tenure in the city of Atlanta by moving themselves, like so many 50-year-olds do, to the suburbs!
Seriously, though, the Atlanta Braves have an incredibly long and rich franchise history to live up to, but when the team first moved to Atlanta in the 1960s, having the team’s star player be an African-American on a team in the South while the country was in the midst of serious racial upheaval nearly seemed a recipe for disaster.