Atlanta Braves Milestones

Order these Atlanta Braves franchise moments by the year they happened. You place all 25 cards on one timeline, one at a time. Three wrong guesses ends the run.

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How to play the Atlanta Braves history timeline

These cards cover a franchise that has called three cities home, and each has a brief description under its title. Your task is to sort the moments by the year they happened. The timeline opens with one card already down and its year printed. As each new card arrives, pick a gap among the ones already placed; a correct pick reveals the year, and a wrong pick moves the card into its rightful spot and costs one of your three lives.

The Braves are among the oldest clubs in baseball, and the deck travels through every city they've played in on its way to a modern run of division titles. Expect miracle seasons, record chases, new ownership and ballpark changes. World Series trips are the trickiest cards, since the Braves made plenty of them and the descriptions are your only real guide to which era each belongs to.

Want a longer game? On the deck tree you can tick this deck alongside any other one measured in release years and dates, and they shuffle into a single timeline together.

What's in the deck

Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.

  • Boston Red Stockings are founded The club's first season in the new National Association
  • Charter member of the National League One of eight clubs in the new league's first season
  • The 'Miracle Braves' win the World Series Last place in July, they sweep Connie Mack's Athletics
  • Babe Ruth plays his final season in Boston The aging slugger's last games before retiring
  • 'Spahn and Sain and pray for rain' pennant Boston's thin rotation carries the club to a National League flag
  • Franchise moves to Milwaukee The club leaves Boston for Wisconsin
  • Win the World Series in Milwaukee Hank Aaron's MVP season ends with a title over the Yankees
  • Return to the World Series as the Yankees get revenge A second straight pennant, but the Yankees get their revenge
  • Franchise moves to Atlanta The team heads south to the region's first big-league club
  • Hank Aaron breaks the career home run record His 715th blast passes Babe Ruth
  • Ted Turner buys the team The cable-television magnate takes over ownership
  • A 13-0 start to the season Joe Torre's club wins the NL West behind Dale Murphy
  • Worst-to-first National League pennant From last place the season before to the World Series
  • Sid Bream's slide wins the pennant A ninth-inning dash home beats the Pirates in Game 7
  • Greg Maddux arrives for a record-setting season A franchise-best 104 wins with a new ace on the staff
  • Win the World Series over Cleveland A Game 6 one-hitter finishes off Cleveland for the crown
  • Return to the World Series as the Yankees rally back Another pennant, but the Yankees rally from two games down
  • Another National League pennant The dominant rotation reaches one more Fall Classic late in the decade
  • A record 14th straight division title The end of an unmatched run of consecutive division crowns
  • Bobby Cox manages his final season The long-time skipper steps down after one last playoff trip
  • Final game at Turner Field The last season at the ballpark converted from an Olympic stadium
  • SunTrust Park opens The club moves to a brand-new ballpark in Cobb County
  • Chipper Jones enters the Hall of Fame The switch-hitting third baseman is inducted at Cooperstown
  • Win the World Series over the Astros A title over the Astros brings the trophy back to Atlanta
  • A 104-win season powered by a 40-70 star Ronald Acuna Jr. steals more than 70 bases in an MVP campaign

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