There was never any love lost between Braves manager Dave Bristol and owner Ted Turner.
In one of the strangest moves in baseball history, Turner made himself the manager of the Braves for one game in 1977. And it may have been more than one game if baseball commissioner Bowie Kuhn had not stepped in.
On May 11 in Pittsburgh, before the third game of a four-game series against the Pirates, the Braves were 8-21 and Turner was upset, telling Bristol to take 10 days off and he would see what was wrong with the team. Bristol was furious.