Braves to pay tribute to Ted Turner, Bobby Cox before tonight’s home game

“It was just a different kind of thing to have a game on every night, wherever you lived with your hometown broadcast every night. It was, it was such a unique thing,” he said.

And to this day, you will find Braves fan at every stadium they play in - sometimes more than the home crowd fans.

BOBBY COX WAS THE ULTIMATE “PLAYERS MANAGER”

The Atlanta Braves have many legendary names in the organization’ 155-year history. But there will only be one “Skipper.”

Players remember Bobby Cox as the ultimate players’ manager. That’s probably why Cox holds the MLB record for most ejections with 162 in his career.

Cox said he would always stick up for his players as long as they gave it their all.

“If they’re giving 100 percent, they were always going to be backed by me. If they weren’t, it was going to be a different story and that’s all I asked them to do, was entertain the fans, give 100 percent all the time. Let’s try to win, and when you’re trying, it was awfully hard for me to get mad at somebody,” Cox once said.

In the wake of his passing, Braves players kept calling Cox a “second father” to them, including fellow Hall of Famer Chipper Jones.

“He was the leader of men and a second father to so many Atlanta Braves thru the yrs. I’m so sad today, but as I sit here watching my two youngest boys play in their championship games on the day he passed, I can’t help but shout the same things he did from the corner of the dugout. ‘Come on kid, u got this!’” Jones wrote in part on social media.

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