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Home of the Braves. It was the Olympic Stadium built for the Centennial Olympic Games in 1996. Ironically, baseball, which was the only Olympic event that I got to see, was played at the old AFC Stadium. Last summer, my brother-in-law took me to a game, and since his friend's grandmother knows Henry Aaron, we were somehow able to get Aaron's seats. We ended up sitting literally behind homeplate. I don't mean a couple rows back or so, I mean it was us, then the wall, then the umpire's butt. Best seats I've ever had. They played the Cubs that night, and after a rain delay of 1.5 hours with some bad lightning, they ended up winning the game.

The first game I got to see here was a playoff game against Florida in 1997. We won the game, but of course we lost that series because the Marlins went on to win their first World Series that year.

I miss the memories of A-FC Stadium, but this ballpark has better seats and is more stylish. It's truly a stadium built for baseball whereas A-FC was designed to save money by utilizing the generic, bland, coliseum style stadium for multiple sports, of course, mainly baseball and football. Ironically, Turner Field was originally that Olympic Stadium, which had that same bland coliseum shape. They just tore out some pieces in order to shape it how it is today.

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baseball , sports , field , atlanta , braves , stadiums , arenas , coliseums , mlb , turner field