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{{Sports team
|name = Atlanta Braves
|image = [[File:Atlanta Braves.png|250px]]
|caption = [[Chipper Jones]] at bat
|sport = [[Baseball]]
|league = {{W|Major League Baseball|MLB}}
|members = [[Chipper Jones]]
|appearance = "[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]"
|mentioned = "[[Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment]]"
}}

The '''Atlanta Braves''' are a current {{W|Major League Baseball}} (MLB) team in [[Atlanta]], [[Georgia]].

== History ==
[[Bart Simpson]] mentions the Atlanta Braves as a reason for keeping cable before [[Homer]] cuts the cable line.<ref>"[[Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment]]"</ref>

[[Chipper Jones]] was in his Atlanta Braves uniform was seen in a ''[[Jock Center]]'' commercial.<ref>"[[Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass]]"</ref>

== Trivia ==
"[[Burns, Baby Burns]]" premiered right after the {{W|World Series}} between the Braves and the [[New York Yankees]] in 1996. Marge comments before the episode premiered "And Braves supporters, whose team was losing to the Yankees, were torn apart between their love for the Braves and their love for the Simpsons."<ref>[http://www.simpsonsarchive.com/episodes/4F05.html SNPP]</ref>

== Behind the Laughter ==
The {{W|Atlanta Braves}} are a baseball team that has been in the National League since their creation in 1873. After numerous name changes and city relocations, the Braves moved to Atlanta in 1966. They won 3 {{W|World Series}} championships (1914, 1957, 1995), but were a dominative playoff team during the 1990s and early 2000s.

== Appearances ==
*{{ep|Homer vs. Lisa and the 8th Commandment|(mentioned)}}
*{{ep|Homer and Ned's Hail Mary Pass}}

== References ==
{{Reflist}}

== External links ==
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