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Braves Field was a baseball park located in Boston, Massachusetts. Today the site is home to Nickerson Field on the campus of Boston University. The stadium was home of the Boston Braves of the National League from 1915 to 1952, prior to the Braves' move to Milwaukee in 1953.
Oct 24, 2012 · Braves Field was a jewel box ballpark built by James Gaffney in 1915, featuring streetcar access and a World Series. It was abandoned in 1953 and replaced by a publicly financed stadium in Milwaukee.
Jul 9, 2019 · Some look back fondly at Braves Field, the home of Boston’s second baseball team. (via Boston Public Library) There’s usually a boilerplate procedure, I have found, for the life, death, and...
- Samuel Evers
- The Endless outfield.
- The Bad News Braves.
- Shifty Bleachers.
- Renovation Sensation.
Those who came to Braves Field weren’t only wowed by the expanse of seats, but the expanse of the playing field. It was huge. James Gaffney was a fan of the Deadball Era and its predilection for the triple and inside-the-park home run. He despised cheap homers hit over a short wall and the lazy trot that followed; at South End Grounds he had moved ...
James Gaffney didn’t wait long to get out. Just a year after opening Braves Field, he sold the team—but kept the ballpark, leasing it out to the Braves until 1949 when his heirs sold it back to the ballclub for roughly $750,000. But there had to be a few moments where Gaffney would shake his head and give advice to a procession of incompetent owner...
What little cash these owners did spend on Braves Field was allotted toward reshaping the playing field. When Ruth began smashing one majestic home run after another and the imitators ensued, ballparks all around the majors reduced their distant Deadball Era field dimensions to encourage more scoring, more home runs and more revenue from more fans....
In 1944, the franchise finally attracted ownership with a cause. A triumvirate of local construction bigwigs referred to as the Three Little Steam Shovels took over the team and set about giving Braves Field some long-overdue TLC. They added lights, put up a massive 68-foot tall scoreboard that prominently featured a 3-D Chesterfield cigarette ad r...
Learn about Braves Field, the last and largest of the concrete-and-steel ballparks built between 1909 and 1915. See artifacts from the park, such as a seat, a chair and a uniform, in the museum.
May 14, 2018 · Braves Field was a marvel when it opened in 1915: “the perfect ballpark” ( Boston Globe 1 ); “the world’s largest ballpark ever” (team owner James E. Gaffney); “baseball’s first superstadium” (historian Michael Gershman). It was where Babe Ruth made his first World Series start, and it was his final baseball home nearly 20 years later.
The Boston franchise played at South End Grounds from 1871 to 1914 and at Braves Field from 1915 to 1952. Braves Field is now Nickerson Field of Boston University . The franchise, from Boston to Milwaukee to Atlanta, is the oldest continuously operating professional baseball franchise.
