1948 Boston Braves season
The 1948 Boston Braves season was the 78th consecutive season of the Major League Baseball franchise, its 73rd in the National League. It produced the team's second NL pennant of the 20th century, its first since 1914, and its tenth overall league title dating to 1876.
Postcard showing the team.
The Boston Braves were a Major League Baseball club that originated in Boston, Massachusetts, and played from 1871 to 1952. Afterwards they moved to Milwaukee. Then in 1966 they were relocated to Atlanta, where they were renamed the Atlanta Braves.
Charles "Old Hoss" Radbourn (standing, far left) giving the finger to the cameraman, the first known photograph of the gesture (1886)
King Kelly cigarette card (Goodwin & Company, 1888)
Fenway Park on October 12, 1914, for the third game of the 1914 World Series
Warren Spahn