The first Atlanta Braves manager was Bobby Bragan. My memories of him of him are fleeting, but that’s what we have the web for. He was hired as manager by Milwaukee in 1963 before there was any notion that they’d be coming to Atlanta, but in some ways he presented a perfect story for the South’s first baseball team. He was an ardent segregationist from Birmingham who asked to be traded from the Dodgers when Jackie Robinson was being promoted, and then recanted early on after seeing Robinson play. In this, he was not nearly as famous as his fellow Southerner, Dixie Walker, or as initially supportive as Pee Wee Reese, but Bragan was a journeyman catcher-shortstop, and Walker and Reese were stars.
Braves 5, Punk-Assed Bitches Swept
