The Atlanta Braves
For this one we need to go back a few years. In 1812, Sir Winston Churchill was leading the British Navy on their way to New Orleans so they could fight the Battle of New Orleans against the stalwart Americans, led by country singer Johnny Horton. The British, however, took a wrong turn at Albuquerque and ended up in Atlanta Harbor, where they launched a bombardment of Fort McHenry Aaron, which defended Atlanta. Atlanta native Francis Scott Key heard the noise and decided to write a national anthem. Part of the lyrics of his new song were, "from the land of the free and the home of the Braves." Someone said, that would be a great name for a baseball team, so they wrote in down and put it in a shoebox and waited for baseball to be invented.
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