101 Reasons to Love the Braves

by Ron Green and Ron Green Jr.

No team in the history of Major League Baseball has ever had a run of sustained success equal to the Atlanta Braves. For fourteen consecutive seasons--from 1991 through 2005--the Braves won the National League East title, a testimony to the franchise's rock-solid foundation. The names have become a part of baseball lore: Greg Maddux, Tom Glavine, John Smoltz, Bobby Cox, and Chipper Jones, among them. The Braves are the only franchise to have won a...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1584796707
• ISBN13: 9781584796701
• Release Date: March 2008
• Publisher: Harry N. Abrams
• Length: 120 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.8" x 7.6"
• Age Range: 13 years and up
• Grade Range: Grade 8 to Postsecondary

Customer Reviews

Braves Lovers' Delight

Some books are as deep as a canyon. Others are like a Texas stream after a thunderstorm--a mile wide and an inch deep. Braves fans, welcome to Texas. "101 Reasons To Love the Braves" is a fast read, mostly photos and captions. You'll learn a little about the Braves that you didn't know, and you'll be reminded of some things you knew but forgot. If you are a fan of baseball history, or better yet, if you are a devotee of the Boston, Milwaukee, or Atlanta incarnation of baseball's oldest continuous franchise, here is a wonderful little volume to please and enlighten. If nothing else, you have to admire the photos.