Let it be known-
The Braves franchise has existed since 1870, 13 years before the Phillies. It is also the only team to have played EVERY SEASON since the inception of the Major Leagues.
The second place in losing merely reflects this.
That is all.
The Braves, bigger losers than the Cubs? LMAO!! Losers!!
If you hadn’t mentioned it I would never have known.
According to the Fox broadcasters tonight, the Braves started the exact same year as the Phillies.
I don’t think that’s true. I’m sure there’s been some kind of Braves franchise for that long, but the team that’s currently in Atlanta and was previously in Milwaukee and Boston probably can’t trace itself back to 1870. The National League began play in 1876 and The Cincinnati Reds are pretty much acknowledged as the oldest team currently playing that has operated continuously in the same major league system. Before the NL started, there were lots of organized leagues, pro and semi-pro, but not any that we’d really recognize as a “major league” today.
In fact, the National League in the late 1890s contracted from 12 to eight teams. I think Baltimore, Louisville, Cleveland and Washington were the four cities the NL dumped. This helped make way for the American League’s founding in 1901, with three of those four cities, plus Boston, Philadelphia, Milwaukee, Chicago and Detroit filling out the league. In 1902, Milwaukee moved to St. Louis and in 1903 Baltimore moved to New York and that was the American League for 50 years.