The Atlanta Braves professional baseball team has a long and storied past, and is one of the National League’s two remaining charter ballclubs. Calling Atlanta, Georgia home, the Braves – or Bravos or “America’s Team,” as they’re sometimes called – hit the ball out of the park at Turner Field, the beautiful stadium they moved into back in 1997. They have been a very successful team, winning 16 divisional titles, seventeen National League pennants and three World Series championships, the most recent being 1995. From 1991 to 2005, the Braves were probably one of the finest teams in all of baseball, winning their division fourteen consecutive times. They’ve sold a ton of Atlanta Braves tickets over the years.

The ballclub was found in 1871, becoming the Boston Red Stockings, though they aren’t related to the American League Red Sox now playing in the same city. After a series of name changes, they finally settled on the name they carry to this day. In 1953, the team departed for Milwaukee, Wisconsin and then to their final home in Atlanta in 1966. During these years, the club didn’t lack for either success or talent, winning numerous league pennants and a World Series in 1914 and 1957. Future sales of Atlanta Braves tickets would lie far off in the future, but the teams of those years sold plenty of their own.

The Milwaukee Braves teams of the era could boast of a couple of future Hall of Fame players in Eddie Mathews and the incomparable Hammerin’ Hank Aaron. Together, the duo would jack a combined 1,226 homers throughout their tenure with the Braves – slamming 850 of those in Milwaukee. Tons of Atlanta Braves tickets – though they were called the Milwaukee Braves at that time – were sold and the team set attendance records with some regularity.

After winning the 1957 World Series, the Braves would return once again and almost pulled another one of their ball caps though they eventually came up just short of the finish line. All during these years, Aaron and Mathews would be a staple of the team, and awesome pitcher Warren Spahn would lead the rotation. The team was one of several clubs in the mid-1960s to relocate, with the Bravos pulling the trigger in 1966. Pre-arrival sales of Atlanta Braves tickets were very strong.

During their first few years in Atlanta, the club played solid ball, and took the 1969 West Division crown, the first time divisional play had occurred in major league baseball. Hank Aaron was still knocking them out of the park with regularity, finally eclipsing Babe Ruth’s all-time home run record of 714 homers on April 8, 1974. Other strong hitters on the team during the early-to-mid 1970s were Rico Carty and future single season home run king Darrell Evans. Sales of Atlanta Braves tickets continued to remain strong.

In 1976, media mogul Ted Turner – former winner himself of yachting’s most prestigious prize, the America’s Cup – purchased the club and immediately began marketing it as “America’s Team,” which wasn’t far off the mark, considering the team’s game aired on Turner’s WTBS nationwide cable station. Initially, though Atlanta Braves tickets sold well, the first few years of Turner’s tenure as owner were notable for his sometimes quirky behavior.

The Bravos experienced some success in the early 1980s, with Hall of Famer Dale Murphy leading the charge on the field. They’d win the first divisional championship in a long while in 1982, though they’d again sink to baseball’s second division until that magnificent run of division, league and World Series championships. A great many Atlanta Braves tickets sold during the 1991 – 2005 streak, with all-world pitchers like future 300-game winner Tom Glavine, John Smoltz and yet another future 300-gamer, Greg Maddux contributing to their 1995 World Series victory.

Since the end of the 2005 season, the club has been carefully reloading and rearming with an eye to attaining great success in the near future. During that time, the club continued to sell Atlanta Braves tickets sold briskly, and the club will build off their fine 2009 season to get right in the hunt for 2010. Players like Garret Anderson and Derek Lowe stand poised to help the club go all the way.