They are also the final remaining team to win every series played.

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    Who calls Atlanta America’s team? I’ve heard it of the Dallas cowboys in football (and jokingly mostly at that) but never in baseball.

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      It’s a holdover from the early days of cable/satellite TV.

      Ted Turner owned the TV station that eventually became TBS, and the Braves. His station aired a lot of Braves games, and that station was widely available on satellite and cable across the country in the late 70s and early 80s.

      So for a good number of years, the Braves had the most games on TV nationally, and that’s when they got that nickname.