The 1995 Braves associate their World Series win that year with one particular emotion: relief. But first came the pressure. Throughout that season, the Braves were defined as the team that always fell short. In the early 1990s, the Braves had lost in two World Series and one NLCS; in 1994, they were one of baseball’s best teams when a strike abruptly ended the season without a chance to make a run in the postseason. But in 1995, the Braves came back with a vengeance to bring the first sports championship to Atlanta.

The start of the 1995 season was marked by the 1994 MLB players’ strike that cancelled the previous season. (The dispute started after the players union voted against a salary cap that could limit their contracts.) Pitcher Tom Glavine was the union representative for the Brav

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