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   When did the Red Sox use Braves Field?

   • The stadium hosted the 1936 Major League Baseball All-Star Game and Braves home games during the 1948 World Series. The Boston Red Sox used Braves Field for their home games in the 1915 and 1916 World Series since the stadium had a larger seating capacity than Fenway Park.

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   Where did the Braves play baseball?

   • Braves Field was a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts. Today the site is home to Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University. The stadium was home of the Boston Braves of the National League from 1915 to 1952, prior to the Braves' move to Milwaukee in 1953.

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   Was Braves Field a football stadium?

   • While built for baseball and having a rich baseball history, Braves Field briefly served as host for football teams. Braves Field was one of two homes (with Fenway Park) of the Boston Bulldogs of the first American Football League (in 1926) and the Boston Shamrocks of the second AFL (in 1936 and 1937).

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   When was the first Braves Field built?

   • Located one mile west of Fenway Park, construction began March 20, 1915 and was completed five months later when the Braves played the St. Louis Cardinals on August 18, 1915. Named after the team, Braves Field was the first ballpark to seat more than 40,000 fans.

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2. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Braves_FieldBraves Field - Wikipedia

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   Braves Field was a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts. Today the site is home to Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University. The stadium was home of the Boston Braves of the National League from 1915 to 1952, prior to the Braves' move to Milwaukee in 1953.

3. sabr.org › journal › articleBraves Field: An Imperfect History of the Perfect Ballpark

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   Oct 24, 2012 · Braves Field was a jewel box ballpark built by James Gaffney in 1915, featuring streetcar access and a World Series. It was abandoned in 1953 and replaced by a publicly financed stadium in Milwaukee.

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5. thisgreatgame.com › ballparks-braves-fieldThe Ballparks: Braves Field—This Great Game

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   Those who came to Braves Field weren’t only wowed by the expanse of seats, but the expanse of the playing field. It was huge. James Gaffney was a fan of the Deadball Era and its predilection for the triple and inside-the-park home run. He despised cheap homers hit over a short wall and the lazy trot that followed; at South End Grounds he had moved ...

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   James Gaffney didn’t wait long to get out. Just a year after opening Braves Field, he sold the team—but kept the ballpark, leasing it out to the Braves until 1949 when his heirs sold it back to the ballclub for roughly $750,000. But there had to be a few moments where Gaffney would shake his head and give advice to a procession of incompetent owner...

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   What little cash these owners did spend on Braves Field was allotted toward reshaping the playing field. When Ruth began smashing one majestic home run after another and the imitators ensued, ballparks all around the majors reduced their distant Deadball Era field dimensions to encourage more scoring, more home runs and more revenue from more fans....

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   In 1944, the franchise finally attracted ownership with a cause. A triumvirate of local construction bigwigs referred to as the Three Little Steam Shovels took over the team and set about giving Braves Field some long-overdue TLC. They added lights, put up a massive 68-foot tall scoreboard that prominently featured a 3-D Chesterfield cigarette ad r...

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6. tht.fangraphs.com › the-life-death-and-afterlifeThe Life, Death, and Afterlife of Braves Field | The Hardball ...

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   Jul 9, 2019 · Some look back fondly at Braves Field, the home of Boston’s second baseball team. (via Boston Public Library) There’s usually a boilerplate procedure, I have found, for the life,...

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7. www.mlb.com › braves › ballparkTruist Park: Home of the Braves | Atlanta Braves - MLB.com

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   Truist Park is the current ballpark of the Atlanta Braves, located in Cobb County, Georgia. It opened in 2017 and has a capacity of 41,000 seats, modern amenities and southern hospitality.

8. sabr.org › bioproj › parkBraves Field (Boston) – Society for American Baseball Research

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   May 14, 2018 · Braves Field was a marvel when it opened in 1915: “the perfect ballpark” ( Boston Globe 1 ); “the world’s largest ballpark ever” (team owner James E. Gaffney); “baseball’s first superstadium” (historian Michael Gershman). It was where Babe Ruth made his first World Series start, and it was his final baseball home nearly 20 years later.

9. www.ballparksofbaseball.com › ballparks › braves-fieldBraves Field - History, Photos and more of the Boston Braves ...

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   Located one mile west of Fenway Park, construction began March 20, 1915 and was completed five months later when the Braves played the St. Louis Cardinals on August 18, 1915. Named after the team, Braves Field was the first ballpark to seat more than 40,000 fans.