In 1993, on the day that slugger Fred McGriff was slated to play his first game as a Brave, a fire broke out in the mezzanine level, quickly engulfing several luxury suites and damaging nearby press boxes.

This was one of the stadiums built "on speculation," paid for by taxpayers as part of a scheme to lure a baseball franchise from another city. The most distinctive architectural feature was the spires atop the grandstand.

The next year, Chief Noc-A-Homa and his Wigwam took Victor’s place in left field.

With its dull gray exterior, cramped concourses and obstructed-view seats, Milwaukee County Stadium was an old park without an old park’s character.It opened on April 6, 1953, for an exhibition game between the Milwaukee Braves and the Boston Red Sox. Final Score 3-2 (PIT) The stadium was demolished in the same week as another Atlanta sports venue, the Omni Coliseum. We bring you cool stories about the game, players, ballparks and the people that shaped the game! During a series between the Braves and the. The Braves built the ballpark and mixed-use development (Battery Atlanta) simultaneously, which was the first time a team had ever accomplished such a feat.

(Courtesy of John Clem. The "Jury Box" bleachers in right field served as home to a rowdy group of fans who worshiped right fielder Tommy Holmes. In September 1966, the NFL’s expansion Atlanta Falcons joined the Braves as tenants until they departed to the Georgia Dome after the 1991 season. Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium,,Atlanta,GA,US First and Figures Status: Demolished 1997 Address: Parking lot at Turner field Capacity: 52,013 Cost to construct: $18 Million Architect: Heery, Heery & Finch The Field Playing Surface: Grass Defining Feature: Nick named the Launching Pad, because elevation helped homeruns. This created a "notch" behind home plate, similar to the one in Oakland Coliseum. However, the game started out with the Yankees looking to score in the first inning.

The stadium has nine luxury suites, each designed for 24 guests.

As originally built, there was a vast amount of foul territory, artificially reduced by an inner fence that enclosed the bullpens.

The Braves reached the Series again in 1992, and the park earned the nickname “The Chop Shop” during this time, as fans performed “The Tomahawk Chop” as a Braves rallying cry. Two scoreboards sat behind the outfield fence in both right and left field. [1] During that year the International League's Atlanta Crackers, whose previous home had been Ponce de Leon Park, played their final season in Atlanta Stadium.

During the 1990s, 50,000 people sat in the seats of Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium every single night during baseball season, but it wasn’t always such a great spot for baseball.

Aaron also hit his 500th (July 14, 1968), 600th (April 27, 1971) and 700th (July 21, 1973) home runs at Atlanta Stadium. No part of this page may be reproduced without permission from Ballparks of Baseball. Defining Feature:  Nick named the Launching Pad, because elevation helped homeruns. Located in downtown Atlanta, just a quarter mile south of the Georgia State Capitol, the stadium was one of the first circular ballparks in the major leagues.

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was imploded on August 2, 1997, and the site converted into a parking lot for Turner Field. Use of this site indicates your agreement to the Terms of Use.

Ballpark effects were compiled by using available data throughout the history of the ballpark. However, it turned out to be the players not the field.

The stadium was imploded on August 2, 1997. However, court battles kept the Braves in Milwaukee for one last season.[4]. Ted Turner arrived in 1976 at the same time 970 fans turned out to see a Braves versus Astros doubleheader. ), #3 ~ The former location of the diamond and outfield fence at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium are marked in a parking lot just north of Turner Field. The ballpark was developed by the Braves in partnership with the Cobb-Marietta Coliseum and Exhibit Hall Authority. Starting Pitchers Tony Cloninger (ATL); Bob Veale (PIT) Originally there were six, but the number was reduced to two when the park was rebuilt. Baseball Wiki is a FANDOM Lifestyle Community. Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, also know as the "Launching Pad", was built in 1965.

A fierce […], On October 9, 1956 --In a 10-inning scoreless pitching duel with both starters going all the way, Jackie Robinson's walk-off single to left in the bottom of the 10th won the game for Clem Labine and kept the Dodgers' championship hopes alive.

Tough-luck loser Bob Turley gave up a 10th-inning walk to Jim Gilliam, a […], On October 8, 1934 At Navin Field the St Louis Cardinals Paul Dean won his second game of the series, Dean pitched a complete game 7 hitter, he will go 2-0 in his only World Series appearance. The stadium was built to attract a Major League Baseball team and in 1966 succeeded when the Milwaukee Braves relocated from Wisconsin. His historic homer, a 350-foot drive over the left field wall, comes off Gaylord Perry in the third inning of a 6-5 ten-inning loss to the Giants at Atlanta’s Fulton County Stadium. Plans for this stadium were approved by the Atlanta board of aldermen in March 1964, in hopes of landing a major league team. The Braves continued to play at Fulton County Stadium until the end of the 1996 season, when they moved into Turner Field, a converted Centennial Olympic Stadium originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics. During the 1862 season, William Cammeyer enclosed the Union Grounds in Brooklyn, New York and began charging admission becoming the first "official" stadium in baseball history. But after the Chief’s departure, the Braves slumped and fell out of first place.

New York Mets defeat the Atlanta Braves, 16-13, in a wild 19-inning affair at Fulton County Stadium, Ken Griffey of the Atlanta Braves swats three solo home runs against the Philadelphia Phillies, The Atlanta Braves have the biggest blowout in postseason history, beating the St. Louis Cardinals, 15 – 0, in Game 7 of the NLCS. Braves outfielder Hank Aaron joins Babe Ruth and Willie Mays as the only major league player to hit 600 career home runs. Along with Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, this was probably one of the blandest of all the boring "doughnut" stadiums of the 1960s and 1970s.

Beneath the turf was over three miles of drainage pipes with a one million-dollar state-of-the art computerized drainage system that could drain 102,000 gallons/hour of water from the field. There are 4,000 premium seats and a variety of different group spaces, including Below the Chop, The Home Depot Clubhouse, Hank Aaron Terrace, and the Xfinity Rooftop.

#1 ~ A left-field view of the plainest "doughnut" stadium ever built, taken during this stadium's final season. Have you been to this stadium?

Unlike other multipurpose stadiums built that had lower grandstands that moved to form a gridiron, Atlanta Fulton County Stadium had seats that pulled out from the outfield. Last No Hitter – Kent Mercker, Mark Wohlers, Alejandro Pena (ATL) vs. Padres on 09/11/1991. The Braves used Fenway Park to accommodate large crowds for a Memorial Day doubleheader in 1913 and the last two games of the 1914 World Series. Dave McNally shut out the Mets through five innings and helped himself with a two-run homer in the third inning.

On April 8, 1974, at 9:07 p.m., Hank Aaron crushed an Al Downing pitch into the left field stands for his 715th career homer, breaking Babe Ruth’s lifetime record. Joe Torre hit two solo homers in the first game ever played at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium, hitting the first and last homers of the contest. The retired numbers of four former Braves lined the centerfield wall: #21 of pitcher Warren Spahn; Phil Niekro’s #35; #41 worn by slugging third baseman Eddie Mathews; and Hank Aaron’s #44. Two decades later, in 1956 the first major proposal for a multi-purpose stadium was proposed. The Olympic Stadium took approximately three years to build and the transition to Turner Field took just seven months.

Peak capacity: 53,046 (1985), ALL STAR GAME: 1972 OLYMPIC GAMES: 1996 PEACH BOWLS: 1971-1991, WORLD SERIES: 1991, 1992, 1995, 1996     (1 W, 3 L). Oakland Coliseum has a similar configuration. On October 28, 1995, the Braves clinched the, The stadium's final event was Game 5 of the. Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium was host to one World Series title (1995), four pennants (1991, 1992, 1995 and 1996) and seven division championships (1969, 1982, 1991, 1992, 1993, 1995 and 1996).

[…]

With less than a month’s warning that the Braves were moving to Milwaukee, and no off-season promotions or ticket sales, the team attracted a then-National League record 1,826,397 to County Stadium in 1953.

SOURCES: Lowry (2006), Pastier (2007), Gershman (1993); Furman Bisher, Miracle in Atlanta: The Atlanta Braves Story (1966), www.baseball-fever.com www.sover.net/~hardybob/pictures.htm. Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium,,Atlanta,GA,US. It will be LaCock's only bases-loaded homer of his career.

One peculiarity of this stadium was that there was virtually no overhang between the upper and lower decks. Approximately 3,000 fans who had arrived early had to be evacuated, and the fire burned on the club level for over 90 minutes.

(Courtesy of John Clem. The new stadium was built on the site of the cleared Washington-Rawson neighborhood, which 50 years previously was a wealthy neighborhood home to Georgia's governor, among others, but which by the 1960s had fallen on hard times. On August 18, 1965 The Beatles performed at the stadium in their only live performance in Atlanta during their 1965 US Tour. Atlanta Stadium became Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium in 1976 when Ted Turner bought the team. However, both the AFL and Finley were unhappy with the city’s slow pace constructing a stadium. County Stadium was the first major league ballpark built with lights and the first to be completely financed by public funds. Turner Field now serves as Georgia State University’s football stadium. Turner Field was transformed from the 80,000 seat Olympic Stadium used for the 1996 Olympic and Paralympic Games. Dimensions (ft) Initial distance in parenthesis, Ball Park First Game