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Name Years Ivers Whitney Adams: 1871 John Conkey: 1872 Charles H. Porter: 1873–1874 Nicholas Apollonio: 1875–1876 Arthur Soden: 1877–1907 George Dovey
The Atlanta Braves are an American professional baseball team based in the Atlanta metropolitan area. The Braves compete in Major League Baseball (MLB) as a member club of the National League (NL) East Division. The club was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1871 as the Boston Red Stockings.
The Braves had bought the Crackers in order to secure the major-league rights to the Atlanta area; in those days, the owner of a minor-league team also owned the major league rights to that city. The Braves completed the move to Atlanta prior to the 1966 season, and drew over 1.5 million in the new stadium that first year. [7]
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.
Pages in category "Atlanta Braves owners" The following 6 pages are in this category, out of 6 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...
Daniel J. Donahue (April 23, 1923 – March 20, 2015) was an American businessman who was the owner and president of the Atlanta Braves Major League Baseball club from 1973 until 1975. [1] Born in Lowell, Massachusetts, Donahue was a graduate of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and then served with the United States Navy during ...
The Atlanta Braves are a professional baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia.The Braves are members of the National League (NL) East division in Major League Baseball (MLB). ). Since the franchise started as the Boston Red Stockings (no relationship to the current Boston Red Sox team) in 1871, the team has changed its name several times and relocated tw