Turner Field

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baseball stadium former Major League Baseball stadium sports venue

Turner Field is a former Major League Baseball stadium in Atlanta, Georgia, best known as the longtime home of the Atlanta Braves and originally built for the 1996 Summer Olympics.

Statements (46)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	baseball stadium → former Major League Baseball stadium → sports venue →
architecturalStyle	modern ballpark →
category	Baseball venues in Georgia → Defunct Major League Baseball venues → Olympic stadiums → Sports venues in Atlanta → Venues of the 1996 Summer Olympics →
city	Atlanta →
convertedToBaseballStadium	1997 →
country	United States →
demolitionStatus	partially reconfigured rather than demolished →
firstSeasonAsBravesHome	1997 →
formerHomeTeam	Atlanta Braves →
hasFeature	Braves Hall of Fame and Museum (during Braves tenure) → outfield stands built on former Olympic track site →
hostedEvent	1996 Summer Olympics → 1996 Summer Paralympics → 1999 World Series → 2000 MLB All-Star Game →
lastSeasonAsBravesHome	2016 →
leagueServed	Major League Baseball →
location	Atlanta, Georgia →
namedAfter	media company Turner Broadcasting System founder Ted Turner →
neighborhood	Summerhill →
opened	1996 →
openedAsOlympicStadium	1996 →
originalPurpose	1996 Summer Olympics athletics stadium →
ownerAfterBravesEra	Georgia State University →
postBravesConversion	college football stadium →
precededBy	Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium →
primaryUse1997to2016	Major League Baseball games →
renamedAs	Georgia State Stadium →
renovated	1997 → 2017 →
scoreboardType	large video scoreboard →
seatingCapacityBaseball	approximately 49,000 →
state	Georgia →
succeededBy	Truist Park →
surface	natural grass →
tenants	Atlanta Braves → Georgia State University Panthers football team →
usedFor	college football games → concerts → other sporting events →

Referenced by (8)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Atlanta Braves →	formerHomeBallpark
Atlanta Braves–New York Mets rivalry →	formerHomeBallparkOfBraves
Philadelphia Phillies–Atlanta Braves rivalry →	historicalHomeBallparkForAtlantaBraves
Centennial Olympic Stadium →	laterConvertedTo
Games of the XXVI Olympiad →	mainStadiumCurrentName
Centennial Olympic Stadium →	postOlympicName
Truist Park →	replacedVenue
Atlanta–Fulton County Stadium →	successorVenue