#21 Atlanta Braves

Three city National League franchise established 1876 in Boston....Then a little more than a decade time in Milwaukee....then settling into Atlanta circa 1966....2021 gave a second World Championship to the big Peach..... singular crowns were captured during the Boston and Milwaukee residencies during 1914 and 1957 seasons respectively under the standard AL vs NL format....As an overview; an up and down franchise since inception.....The 19^th century the Braves were on a high ebb....with the first half of the 20^th century was by in large not successful (save for 1914 WS win).....the Boston years were lean and unstable  Boston fan base turned to the crosstown AL rival while losing campaigns mounted..... nadir was a horrendous 38-115 record in 1935, an embarrassment, which included a rapidly declining Babe Ruth....While some improvement took place over time (1948 WS berth).....but in 1952 the move west took place surrendering Bean town to the Red Sox......Destination upon Milwaukee site of the franchise’s top minor league team....One in Brewtown the team became a model of consistency and took one WS, fell a game short in 1958.....from 1953-1965 Braves never finished below .500 buoyed on the broad shoulders of three of the Braves’ greatest HOFers, Hank Aaron, Eddy Matthews, and Warren Spahn....The lure of being the first team of the south (and its growing TV market) proved too much for Southeast Wisconsin.....once the franchise’s top AAA locale proved to be its next destination.... Move to Atlanta was uneven at best for the first 25 years.....a couple of NLCS appearances....that all changed in a 30 year time span from 1991 to 2021 which has resulted 21 post season appearance which include 2 of the team’s 4 world championships....the vanguard of new prosperity are the arms of Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Greg Maddaux, and the bats of Chipper and Andruw Jones (no relation).....more recently Freddie Freeman has helmed team success.....A variety of team nicknames where tried to instill interest but Braves was the preferred choice....Interesting to note nearing 22,000 Braves games have been played and currently they are just under 100 games above a .500 record which was passed into the black on 8/11/2018....enterprise going under 5 different nicknames as the franchise was well under .500.