Stadium 26: Turner Field and the team with an identity crisis.

The Atlanta Braves, winners of 14 straight division titles from 1991 to 2005 and only one World Series championship during that time, are a proud franchise that actually dates back to 1871. They started as the Boston Bees

Some would say they had an identity crisis growing up as they were:
The Boston Bees

 The Boston Red Caps (no photo found)
The Boston Beaneaters

The Boston Doves

The Boston Rustlers

Boston Braves

Boston Bees (again?)

Boston Braves (Seriously make up your minds!!)

They then moved to Milwaukee to become the Milwaukee Braves

And finally since 1966, the Atlanta Braves

And that is what I found interesting about Atlanta Braves baseball.

Turner Field opened in 1997 after initially being built as the Centennial Olympic Stadium for the 1996 Summer Olympic games. They closed off the stadium and thus created Turner Field.

What stands out:

1) My girlfriend would like everyone to know that if you stand in the left part of the stadium away from the game you see this great view of the city

2) Coca-Cola makes it fun by placing games for kids and placing a HUGE Coke bottle out in left field. This is actually a slide for the kids!

Cons:

1) The cow is scary....

2) The chop. Yes I am a Florida State fan. Yes I know they play that thing ALL the time at a FSU game. As a Marlins fan though, I think it is obnoxious that they must play that chop music every time a Brave does something. We get it! WE GET IT! The cow of course joins in and his eyes get red...SCARY

3) Traffic. The public transportation is very limited to Turner Field and trying to get there is a nightmare on game nights. You will be endlessly stuck in traffic just to get a very extreme parking spot by the highway... The stadium is located south of downtown and most of their fan base is north... So imagine besides Atlanta traffic being historically bad lets add 30000 more people heading south.

4) It is old by modern standards... 1996 is old by the modern new stadium era and really has not been kept up well. Now that they are moving to Sun Trust Park in 2017. They are doing what the Marlins did with Sun Life Stadium and that is stop the upkeep of it. 

I will not miss Turner Field and lets usher in our new stadium and number 33 on the list.

God I hate the Braves...

Next up: Deep in the heart of Texas!