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The Phillies close out a long, at times glorious history at Turner Field

Turner Field was first presented to the world as Centennial Olympic Stadium, the crowned jewel of Atlanta’s campus for the 1996 Games. It would go on to serve as a location for major films such as Flight, The Change-Up, and the Clint Eastwood anti-computer vehicle Trouble with the Curve, in which Eastwood posits that he, as a blind man, could serve as a more effective baseball scout than any machine.

But following the Olympics, rather than letting it become a haunted, derelict structure as so many Olympic facilities do once the events have concluded, the Braves moved in, making it a slightly less unpleasant place than it could have been.