Sentence examples for Braves from inspiring English sources

Hear that, you Atlanta Braves fans classless enough to come from the city of Atlanta?

The Braves led baseball with a 103 59 mark, good enough for a 61/2-game margin over the Mets in the National League East.

Atlanta Braves, American professional baseball team based in Atlanta.

In the end the Rockies had to settle for the NL Wild Card, edging out the Atlanta Braves.

Hornsby served as a player-manager during select seasons with the Braves (1928) and Cubs (1930 32), as well as during his entire tenure with the Browns.

In 2010 Glavine officially retired from baseball and accepted a front-office position with the Braves.

While the Native American braves recruited to fight for the crown by the Johnson and Butler chieftains of the Mohawk valley scalped, tortured and sometimes burned their prisoners alive, the Patriots tarred and feathered Loyalists, or forced them to ride on a sharpened rail, and many Loyalist houses were looted and burned.

First, if I were the plaintiffs' attorney in this case, I would be busily recruiting plaintiffs to file similar trademark suits against the Cleveland Indians, Atlanta Braves, Florida State Seminoles and other teams with Native American mascots.

The name Redskins is more crudely derogatory than the more anodyne Indians, Braves, or Chiefs, but anecdotal evidence that Native Americans don't much like any of those names abounds.Second, this is the point in the column where I'm supposed to discuss whether Dan Snyder, the Redskins' owner, should change the name, regardless of the court's ruling, on sheer principle.

He later worked as a pitching coach for the New York Mets and Atlanta Braves, and in 1996 he became a special instructor for the Cardinals.

Zinnemann's last film of the decade, the earnest and probing The Nun's Story (1959), starred Audrey Hepburn in an Academy Award-nominated (for best actress) portrayal of a nun who braves the terrors of a mental hospital in Belgium, the rigours of the Belgian Congo, and the brutality of the Nazis before finally leaving her order to join the Resistance.