January 8 in Atlanta Braves History: James E. Gaffney sells the Boston Braves for $500,000 to Percy Haughton, Harvard’s head baseball coach and businessman Arthur Cham (1916)

Sponsor this Page On January 8, 1916 — James E. Gaffney sells the Boston Braves for $500,000 to Harvard University football coach Percy Haughton, and businessman Arthur Chamberlin Wise, who will raise $600,000 to build Fenway Park. The former owner, a Tammany Hall alderman and construction contracto

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