The Braves Move On
BRAVES AND OPPONENTS LINE UP ON FIELD BEFORE THE GAME, 1952. Leslie Jones Collection, BPL Print Department.
The Boston Braves and Brooklyn Dodgers line up for the playing of the national anthem on Opening Day of their final season at Braves Field.
Attendance at Boston Braves games dwindled to a mere 281,000 in 1952; only two games during the 1952 season saw 10,000 or more fans in the nearly empty stands. Still, fans and players alike were shocked when the ownership suddenly sold the Braves to Milwaukee during spring training in Florida in 1953.
The team never returned to Boston, and Braves Field was sold to Boston University and renamed. In 1955, a major portion of the field was torn down to make space for dormitories.
