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The Atlanta Braves Will Not Be Stuck Playing in a 20-Year-Old Ballpark

Tom Scocca · 11/11/13 04:35PM

"Nostalgia's a fad," Stan Kasten, then president of the Atlanta Braves, said in 1996. "This is classic." He was talking about the brand-new Centennial Olympic Stadium, which was designed to be converted after the Atlanta Olympics into a state-of-the-art baseball stadium for the Braves, at a total construction cost of $209 million.