Atlanta Braves

In 2002, 2003, and 2004 the Braves won their division again, but lost in the NLDS in all three years 3 games to 2, to the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Houston Astros respectively. Countless other references can be traced in books, movies, and even computer games. In 2001, Atlanta won the National League East division, swept the NLDS against the Houston Astros, then lost to the Arizona Diamondbacks in the NLCS. The Streetpunk/oi band Lower Class Brats has maintained a theme of both the film and the book in the band's lyrics, merchandise, and even the members's tattoos. With their strong pitching being a constant, the Braves would also appear in the 1996 and 1999 World Series, and have not failed to win a division title since 1990 as of this writing. Pitching is not the only constant in the Braves organization; as of the end of the 2004 season, Cox is still the Braves' manager and Schuerholz remains the team's GM. Moloko is also the name of a vodka bar in Salisbury, in the English county of Wiltshire, specializing in Russian, Polish and Scandinavian vodkas. With this World Series victory, the Braves became the first team in Major League Baseball to win world championships in three different cities. The Korova Milk Bar in New York City references the same, and even features decor similar to that of the movie, as well as milk and iced-cream themed drinks.

The Braves would win a World Series in 1995, defeating the Cleveland Indians in six games. In 2002, Poland's alternative stars Myslovitz released an album entitled Korova Milky Bar, a reference to the place where Alex and his friends meet to consume their drug-enhanced moloko. In 1993, the Braves signed Cy Young Award winning pitcher Greg Maddux, leading many baseball insiders to declare the pitching staff the best of all-time. In 1988, the German punk rock outfit Die Toten Hosen released their breakthrough concept album Ein kleines bisschen Horrorshow (a reference to Alex's Nadsat phrase a bit of [the old] horrorshow [ultraviolence]), having been involved as musicians in a German stage production of A Clockwork Orange. In the 1992 season, the Braves would reach the NLCS again and defeat, once again, in seven games, the Pirates, only to lose in the World Series to a dominating Toronto Blue Jays team. References in pop music abound outside the English-speaking world as well. Despite the loss, the Braves' success would continue. Although the British dance act Moloko's name simply means "milk" in Russian, it was adopted indirectly from Nadsat in which it has the same basic meaning, but also refers to a milk drink with admixed drugs.

They defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates in a tightly contested seven-game NLCS only to lose the World Series, also in seven games, to the Minnesota Twins. Perhaps most notably, the 1980s British electropop band Heaven 17 took their name from an eponymous band in the book. Meanwhile, behind position players Dave Justice, Ron Gant and unexpected league Most Valuable Player and batting-average leader Terry Pendleton, the Braves overcame a slow start to go 47-22 over the last three months of the season and win 8 of their last 9, edging the Los Angeles Dodgers by one game in one of baseball history's more memorable playoff races. Both the story and individual elements have had a strong influence on popular culture in general and popular music in particular, although this is probably due to the movie's popularity rather than the novel's. The following season, Glavine, Avery, and Smoltz would be recognized as the best young pitchers in the league, winning 52 games between them. The line "What's it going to be then, eh?" recurs throughout the book, and the first chapter of each of the three parts begins with the line. Immediately after the season, John Schuerholz was hired as general manager. It should be noted that the movie version which was directed by Stanley Kubrick follows the American version of the book, ending prior the events of the 21st chapter. Kubrick has claimed that he was unaware of the non-American version of the book at the time that he filmed the movie.

Perhaps the Braves' most important move, however, was not on the field, but in the front office. He thinks of starting a family, while thinking that his children will be as violent as he was, for a time. However, pitching coach Leo Mazzone began training young pitchers Tom Glavine, Steve Avery, and John Smoltz. A few of the old characters are reincarnated as new friends of Alex. Not only was this season a losing effort, the Braves traded Dale Murphy to the Philadelphia Phillies after it was clear he was becoming a less dominant player. In the 21st chapter, which takes place a few years after the 20th, we find Alex realising that his violent phase is over, but that it was inevitable. Bobby Cox was rehired as manager in 1990. There is controversy as to whether the 21st chapter makes the book better or makes the book worse.

Murphy, excelling in defense, hitting, and running, was consistently recognized as one of the league's best players, but the Braves averaged only 65 wins per season between 1985-1990. The intended book was divided into three parts of 7 chapters each, which added up to be 21, a symbolic age at which a child earns his rights (when the novel was written). Murphy also won a Most Valuable Player award the following season, but the Braves began a period of decline that defined the team throughout the 1980s. Burgess says that the original American publisher dropped his final chapter in an effort to make the book more depressing. Strong performances from Bob Horner, Chris Chambliss, pitcher Phil Niekro, and short relief pitcher Gene Garber helped the Braves, but no Brave was more acclaimed than Murphy, who won both a Most Valuable Player and a Gold Glove award. It is at this point that early American editions of the book end, but there is a 21st chapter which was dropped at the time of US publication. Cox was fired after the 1981 season and replaced with Joe Torre, under whose leadership the Braves attained their first divisional title since 1969. The 20th chapter ends the original American edition on a dark note, with Alex listening joyfully to Beethoven's Ninth Symphony, and eagerly anticipating his return to creating havoc.

However, in 1980, Murphy was moved to center field and demonstrated excellent range and throwing ability, while the Braves earned their first winning season since 1974. Eventually Alex falls foul of some of his former victims, and the ensuing political fuss results in the removal by the state of his conditioning; he gleefully returns to his early habits but finds he has lost the taste for it, a more mature responsible unit of society. Murphy hit 77 home runs over the next three seasons, but struggled on defense, positioned at either catcher or first base while being unable to adeptly play either. The moral issue at stake within the book is that Alex is now "good", but his ability to decide this for himself has been taken from him; his "goodness" is as artificial as the clockwork orange of the book's title. Cox promoted a 22-year-old slugger named Dale Murphy into the starting lineup. Though it renders him incapable of violence (even in self-defence), it also makes him unable to enjoy his favourite classical music, an unintended side effect. After three straight losing seasons, Bobby Cox was hired as manager of the franchise for the 1978 season. However, the experiment is nothing more than a harsh exercise in behavioral conditioning that strips Alex of his free will.

In 1977, Turner appointed himself manager, but was ordered to relinquish that position after one game (the Braves lost). Eventually Alex is incarcerated and "rehabilitated" by a program of aversion therapy. Turner quickly gained a reputation as a quirky, hands-on baseball owner. He tells his story in a teenage slang called "Nadsat", which combines eighteenth-century Russian and English slang. In 1976 the team was purchased by media magnate Ted Turner, owner of superstation WTBS. Alex roams the streets at night with his gang, committing crimes for enjoyment, while no one attempts to stop them or the other gangs that ravage the community. On April 4 he hit #714 in Cincinnati, and on April 8, in front of his home fans, he finally beat Ruth's mark. His main pleasures in life are classical music, rape, and random acts of extreme violence ("ultraviolence" in Alex's idiom).

The next season, it was only a matter of time before he set a new record. Set a few years in the future, the book follows the career of fifteen year old Alex (his full name is revealed in the movie as Alexander de Large). Throughout the winter he received racially motivated death threats, but stood up well under the pressure. GI deserters in a London street, and suffered a miscarriage and chronic gynaecological problems³. In the relatively hitter friendly confines of Fulton County Stadium ("The Launching Pad"), he actually increased his offensive production, and by the end of the 1973 season had hit 713 home runs, one short of Babe Ruth's record. The book was inspired by an event in 1944, when Burgess' pregnant wife Lynn was robbed and beaten by four U.S. In the mean time, fans had to be satisfied with the achievements of Aaron. This title alludes to the protagonist's negatively conditioned responses to feelings of evil which prevent the exercise of his free will.

They would not win it again until 1982, under Joe Torre. In his essay "Clockwork oranges"² he says that "this title would be appropriate for a story about the application of Pavlovian, or mechanical, laws to an organism which, like a fruit, was capable of colour and sweetness". A .500 baseball team in the first few years (85-77, 77-85 and 81-81) respectively, they won the 1969 NL West pennant, before being swept by the "Miracle Mets" in the NLCS. Burgess wrote in his later introduction, "A Clockwork Orange Resucked", that a creature who can only perform good or evil is "a clockwork orange—meaning that he has the appearance of an organism lovely with colour and juice but is in fact only a clockwork toy to be wound up by God or the Devil." Rumor has it that Burgess had intended to name the work "A Clockwork Orang" and was hypercorrected to the form we know. The next year, the Braves were its new residents. The French title, "Orange mécanique" was interpreted to be a grenade. Keen to attract them, the City of Atlanta constructed a new ballpark, Fulton County Stadium, officially opened in 1965. For instance, some believed that the title referred to a mechanically responsive (clockwork) non-human (orang, Malay for "person").

By the early 1960s attendance in Milwaukee had dwindled as well, and a new group of owners once again sought relocation. Burgess wrote that the title came from an old Cockney expression "As queer [i.e. strange] as a clockwork orange", but that he had found that other people read new meanings into it¹. Burdette, the Series MVP, threw three complete game victories, giving up only two earned runs. The novel is widely regarded as a successor to earlier great British dystopian novels such as Nineteen Eighty-Four and Brave New World. In 1957, it culminated in their first World Series win for over 40 years, defeating the New York Yankees of Berra, Mantle and Ford. A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian 1962 novel by Anthony Burgess, and forms the basis for the 1971 film adaptation by Stanley Kubrick. Sluggers Eddie Mathews and Hank Aaron drove the offense (they would hit a combined 863 home runs as Braves), whilst Spahn, Lew Burdette and Bob Buhl anchored the rotation. 411.

As the 1950s the reinvigorated Braves were increasingly competitive. United States p. Attendances steadily dwindled until, on March 13, 1953, then-owner Lou Perini announced he was moving the team to Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Why I am 8 years younger than Anthony Burgess. Their two pennants not withstanding, the Braves term in Boston was not a successful time. Vidal, Gore. Ironically, in the 1948 season, the Braves actually had a better record in games that Spahn and Sain did not start than in games they did. ISBN 0091360803 (extracts quoted here (http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/johnnymoped/aclockworktestament/aclockworktestament_beingtheadventures_page1.html)).

The poem received such a wide audience that the sentiment, usually now paraphrased as "Spahn and Sain and pray for rain", entered the baseball vocabulary. London: Hutchinson. The remainder of the rotation was so thin that in September the Boston Post journalist Gerald Hern characterised them by the poem. In 1985. In 1948 the team won the pennant, behind the pitching of Warren Spahn and Johnny Sain who won 39 games between them. Clockwork Oranges. A miraculous season of these proportions has never again been seen in professional sports. Burgess, Anthony (1978).

The team was at the top of the league in both pitching, and hitting, and its leader, Evers, won the Chalmers Award, which is equivalent to today's MVP. — An extract is quoted on several web sites: [4] (http://pers-www.wlv.ac.uk/~fa1871/burgess.html), [5]  (http://pages.eidosnet.co.uk/johnnymoped/aclockworktestament/aclockworktestament_anthonyburgessonaclockworkorange_page2.html), [6] (http://kubricks0.tripod.com/burgesam.htm). The turnaround was complete. (1987). They were now World Champions. Century Hutchinson Ltd. Nevertheless, the Braves dominated the series in every phase, and swept away the favored Athletics. A Clockwork Orange: A play with music.

The team entered the World Series as a heavy underdog to Connie Mack's Philadelphia A's. [3] (http://www.publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm198990/cmhansrd/1990-02-01/Orals-2.html)). Not only did they finish first, but they ended up 10.5 games up on the second place Giants. The name was used on the floor of the House on February 1, 1990. The Braves went 51-16 in the second half of the season, winning 34 of their last 44 games. ([1] (http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=3637), [2] (http://www.wakeupmag.co.uk/articles/sstate3.htm). From there came a romp unmatched in baseball history. Clockwork Orange is also the name of a supposed(?) 1970s hard-right-wing MI5 operation led by one Colin Wallace, designed to discredit the Irish Republicans, Harold Wilson and his Labour Party, and the Conservative's leader Edward Heath, ultimately putting Margaret Thatcher in power.

When the team rallied to sweep the Reds in a doubleheader on July 19th, Stallings declared that the team was playing ball better than any other in the league, and was ready to catch New York. Clockwork Orange was also the nickname for the Dutch national soccer teams of the early 1970s, for their precision passing and ballhandling and the team's orange jerseys. At midseason, on July 15th, the team was still in last place, 11.5 games out of first. Clockwork Orange is also a nickname of the Glasgow Subway, the SPT metro line of Glasgow, Scotland. It had solidified around the phenomenal double-play tandem of Rabbit Maranville and Johnny Evers (of Evers to Tinker to Chance fame), and a strong starting rotation led by Lefty Tyler, Dick Rudolph, and Bill James. The paintings in Alex' parents living room are mass market art created by the artists Joseph Henry Lynch and Gerritt Van der Syde. Slowly, the team began to turn itself around. Only three were produced.

The only man left believing was the team's manager, "Miracle Man" George Stallings. The car seen before the scene of ultraviolence at "HOME" is the M-505 Adams Brothers Probe 16. Everything that could have gone wrong, did go wrong. There is also a pornographic spin-off, entitled A Cockwork Orgy. In this version, Alex is a female (Alexandra), the Korova is just a regular, run-of-the-mill bar, and there is no prison chaplain. After a dismal 4-18 start to the season, the fanbase was turned off, as it looked like the Braves were headed for another bottom-feeder season. Other unrealized versions were to contain girls in miniskirts or senior citizens instead of the teenage rowdies. None were more remarkable than the mid-season last-to-first transformation of the 1914 "Miracle" Braves. Members of The Rolling Stones proposed to film their own adaptation before Kubrick decided to do so.

The Boston franchise that became known as the Braves took part in some of baseball's most memorable moments, achievements, and penant races. Reportedly, the only two recognizable scenes are those where Victor (Alex) wreaks general havoc and undergoes the Ludovico treatment. They are most recently known for their ongoing record of 13 consecutive division championships (1991-2004, except for the strike-shortened 1994 season), the most in any professional North American sport, while collecting one World Series championship in that time (in 1995, also a strike-shortened season). Seven years prior to the Kubrick film, Andy Warhol had produced a low-budget version, titled Clockwork (also known as Vinyl). They are in the Eastern Division of the National League. The Royal Shakespeare Company's theatrical version used songs composed especially for the production by Bono and the Edge of the rock band U2. The Atlanta Braves are a Major League Baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia. This version also restores the novel's twenty-first chapter, ending with Alex deciding to start a family.

Danville Braves
Orlando Braves. Branom "defects" from the psychiatric clinic when she realizes that the treatment has destroyed Alex's ability to enjoy music. Myrtle Beach Pelicans
Rome Braves. (Reportedly, he modeled one of Alex's early victims on Kubrick.) In the stage version, Dr. Mississippi Braves. After Kubrick's film was released, Burgess wrote a Clockwork Orange stage play. Richmond Braves.

National League
. Pitching saves: John Smoltz, 55 (2002). Pitching ERA: Greg Maddux, 1.56 (1994). Pitching strikeouts: Charlie Buffinton, 417 (1884).

Pitching wins: John Clarkson, 49 (1889). Strikeouts: Andruw Jones, 147 (1948). Walks: Bob Elliott, 131 (1948). Hitting streak: Tommy Holmes, 37 games (1945).

Stolen bases: King Kelly, 84 (1887). Triples: Dick Johnston and Harry Stovey, 20 (1897 and 1891). Doubles: Hugh Duffy, 51 (1894). Runs: Hugh Duffy, 160 (1894).

Hits: Hugh Duffy, 237 (1894). Runs batted in: Hugh Duffy, 145 (1894). Home runs: Hank Aaron and Eddie Mathews, 47 (1971 and 1953). Batting average: Hugh Duffy, .440 (1894).

44 Hank Aaron. 42 Jackie Robinson (this number is retired throughout baseball). 41 Eddie Mathews. 35 Phil Niekro.

21 Warren Spahn.   3 Dale Murphy. Johnny Estrada (2004). Mike Hampton (2003).

Javy Lopez (2003). Gary Sheffield (2003). Chipper Jones (1999, 2000). Jeff Blauser (1997).

John Smoltz (1997). David Justice (1993). Fred McGriff (1993). Ron Gant (1991).

Tom Glavine (1991, 1995, 1996, 1998). Dale Murphy (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985). Silver Slugger