Baseball returning to the Atlanta site where Hank Aaron hit his 715th home run

ATLANTA (AP) — Baseball is returning to the site where the Braves first played in Atlanta and Hank Aaron hit his record 715th home run.

Georgia State has finalized plans for a new 1,000-seat baseball stadium in a parking lot that includes the footprint of the former Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium.

That venue helped lure the Braves from Milwaukee in 1966 and is best known as the ballpark where Aaron broke Babe Ruth’s home run record on April 8, 1974. The mark has since been eclipsed by Barry Bonds.

Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium served as home of the Braves through the 1996 season, when it was replaced by a new facility just a few hundred yards away that was built initially as the main venue for the Centennial Olympics.

The old stadium was imploded and replaced by a parking lot for the new venue, which was converted into Turner Field. The Braves played at “The Ted” until their move to suburban Truist Park in 2017.