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Picture of SunTrust Park, home of the Atlanta Braves.

The Atlanta Braves and the Worst and Best of Baseball in America

How the team came to have that name and why it still persists.
by Ben Railton via The Saturday Evening Post on April 5, 2022
Bird's-eye view of Atlanta Braves baseball stadium.

You Can’t Eat Home Runs: Hunger and Games on Atlanta’s Southside

Atlanta’s 1966 Summerhill Rebellion erupted after police shot Harold Prather, exposing racism, poverty, and neglect worsened by stadium-led upheaval.
by Clif Stratton via The Metropole on November 4, 2025
Spectators watch the Atlanta Crackers play at Ponce de Leon Park. Postcard from 1915.

“Cobb Out Front in Bid for Stadium”: Professional Baseball and the Rise of Suburbia, 1957-1962

Leaders in Cobb county pushed a huge stadium plan in the late ’50s to lure teams and suburban growth, but funding, leagues, and politics stalled it.
by Andrew J. Bramlett via Atlanta Studies on October 20, 2025

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