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Turner Field has aged well. The Braves are heading to the suburbs next season, trading the ballpark affectionately known as ''the Ted'' - a nod to former owner and namesake Ted Turner - for 41,500-seat SunTrust Park , hastily being assembled some 15 miles away as part of a mall-like complex that will generate even more money for the team. ''It's a little weird,'' Atlanta catcher Tyler Flowers said. Continue to Article

October 01, 2016 10:14:am EST

Turner Field has aged well. The Braves are heading to the suburbs next season, trading the ballpark affectionately known as ''the Ted'' - a nod to former owner and namesake Ted Turner - for 41,500-seat SunTrust Park , hastily being assembled some 15 miles away as part of a mall-like complex that will generate even more money for the team. ''It's a little weird,'' Atlanta catcher Tyler Flowers said. Continue to Article

October 01, 2016 10:14:am EST

On Sunday, the Braves will play their last game at Turner Field and the stadium will move on to its next chapter, likely as a college football field. July 29, 1996 - Carl Lewis wins the last of his nine gold medals with a dramatic victory in the long jump. Aug. 1, 1996 - Wearing golden shoes, Michael Johnson crushes the world record with a time of 19.32 seconds in the 200 meters. Continue to Article

October 01, 2016 4:23:am EST

There are a handful of stadiums in Major League Baseball's modern era that were used for fewer seasons than Atlanta's Turner Field, which has been home of the Braves since 1997. Sick's Stadium, Seattle (1969) - A minor-league park that opened in 1938, it hosted the only season of the expansion Seattle Pilots, who moved to Milwaukee in 1970 and became the Brewers. Merely intended as a temporary home until a new domed stadium was built, Sick's Stadium was expanded to hold around 25,000 for the Pilots. Continue to Article

October 01, 2016 4:19:am EST

Rookie Ty Blach will seek to avoid becoming the next Salomon Torres in San Francisco Giants lore when he pitches a critical game Saturday against the Los Angeles Dodgers. Torres, then a 21-year-old rookie, was called upon by Giants manager Dusty Baker to pitch the final game of the season in 1993 when San Francisco and the Atlanta Braves were tied for first place. The Los Angeles Dodgers bombed the youngster in 3 1/3 innings of a 12-1 thumping that relegated the Giants to second place at a time when baseball didn't have a wild-card entry into the playoffs. Continue to Article

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