Table of Contents Page Chapter Ca Pa Meet the Braves 4 Glory Days 6 Home Turf 12 Dressed for Success 14 We Won 16 Go-To Guys 20 Calling the Shots 24 One Great Day 26 Legend Has It 28 It Really Happened 30 Team Spirit 32 Timeline 34 Fun Facts 36 Talking Baseball 38 Great Debates 40 For the Record 42 Pinpoints 44 Glossary 46 Extra Innings 47 Index 48 ABOUT OUR GLOSSARY In this book there may be several words that you are reading for the first time Some are sports words some are new vocabulary words and some are familiar words that are used in an unusual way All of these words are defined on page 46 Throughout the book sports words appear in bold type Regular vocabulary words appear in bold italic type
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Meet the Braves B uilding a winning baseball team takes a lot of time and andd money Few clubs have done it better than the Atlanta a Braves Year in and year out they put good players on the field Some are stars and some are not When they play together as a team however the result is usually a victory The Braves have built their winning tradition over the course of many decades In fact they have been playing baseball longer than any other team During this time fans in r the Northeast Midwest and South have called the Braves their own The club has been the champion of baseball at each stop This book tells the story of the Braves They are an easy team to root for because they play the game well and have fun doing it Atlanta’s players may be grownups but there is still a lot of kid in all of them Tim Hudson shares a laugh with catcher Brian McCann on the pitcher’s mound during a 2011 game 5
