Atlanta is home to some of the nation’s
best professional sports teams, with players from diverse
cultural backgrounds as well as from around the globe.
Baseball fans will want to visit
Turner Field — home
to the Atlanta Braves, who between 1991
and 2005 won 14 consecutive division titles, five National
League pennants and the 1995 World Championship. It now also
boasts one of the Southeast’s biggest high-definition
screens in a sports venue.
Check out the Ivan
Allen Jr. Braves Museum & Hall of
Fame to see more than
600 artifacts that trace the team’s history, as well
as the new “Braves of the World” exhibit that
features players from 22 different countries the Braves have
seen make it to the major-league level.
Another venue with a fresh new look is
the Georgia
Dome,
home to the Atlanta
Falcons football team.
Philips
Arena is home to Atlanta Hawks
www.hawks.com basketball, Atlanta
Thrashers hockey and the
Atlanta Dream, the city’s
new Women’s National Basketball Association (WNBA)
team, which kicks off its inaugural 34-game season this year.
Head north of the city to Gwinnett
Arena to see the Georgia
Force arena football team,
or the Gwinnett
Gladiators, the
Atlanta Thrashers’ minor
league team.
Run every year on July 4, the Peachtree
Road Race is the world’s
largest 10K (6.2-mile) race with 55,000 participants, a
mix of recreational runners and world-class athletes including
racers from around the world.
Another hot sporting event, held
each April, is the 100
Black Men of Atlanta’s 100
Golf Classic. Many local black
business leaders tee off in this tournament to benefit
Project Success, a postsecondary preparation and tuition
assistance program for Atlanta Public Schools students. |
