[2] The Braves used 40 different Opening Day starting pitchers in their 80 National League seasons they played prior to moving to Atlanta.
[3] Warren Spahn had the most Opening Day starts for the Boston and Milwaukee Braves with ten between 1952 and 1964.
Tommy Bond (1877–1880), Vic Willis (1900–1904), Dick Rudolph (1915–1917, 1919), Al Javery (1942–1945) and Johnny Sain (1946–1949) each made four Opening Day starts.
[4] Their Opening Day starting pitchers in World Series years were Lefty Tyler in 1914, Sain in 1948, and Spahn in 1957 and 1958.
[5][6][7][8] In addition, the franchise won the National League championship eight times during the 19th century, prior to the existence of the modern World Series.