ATLANTA — Along Battery Avenue, the still-carpet-smooth new street that runs along the outside of Truist Park, home of the Atlanta Braves, the All-Star banners are flying. Images of Aaron Judge, Tarik Skubal, Paul Skenes and other stars decorate the walls and light posts around the ballpark in advance of next week’s All-Star Game. But one of those banners will eat at Braves fans a whole lot more than the rest.
Just outside the first-base-line gate, a banner of Freddie Freeman flutters in the hot July breezes. That would be Freddie Freeman, onetime heart-and-soul of Atlanta, now in Dodger blue.