Boston Braves

The 1914 club was in last place on the Fourth of July and won the pennant by ten and a half games, then swept the Athletics in the World Series. It is the only title the club won under this name, and it went 94-59 that season, which remains the best on file. Two pennants and 36 seasons at 2,459-3,005.

The worst season is 1935, at 38-115, the year Babe Ruth played his last 28 games here. The club spent most of its Boston life behind the Red Sox in attendance and finances, and in 1953 it moved to Milwaukee, the first franchise relocation in the major leagues in half a century.

Twenty Hall of Famers played here, among them Warren Spahn, Rabbit Maranville, Johnny Evers, Dave Bancroft and Rube Marquard. Casey Stengel managed the club for six seasons and lost 373 games doing it, a decade before the Yankees hired him. Home was the South End Grounds and then Braves Field, and Jackie Robinson's first major-league game was played against this club, at Ebbets Field, in April 1947.