Braves history from inside the ballpark.
Behind the Braves is the official Atlanta Braves podcast, built around team access, history, alumni stories, and fan-culture moments. Episodes move from Truist Park updates and spring training notes to deep looks at the 1995 championship team, Braves ballparks, and familiar faces returning to the organization.
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Behind the Braves is the official Atlanta Braves podcast, but its best moments are less like press material and more like guided access to the club’s memory. Ricky Mast frames the show from inside the organization, often beginning with what is happening around Truist Park, the Battery Atlanta, spring training, Braves Fest, Braves Vision, or a live event. Then the conversation opens outward. A staff guest can become a story about inherited fandom, the TBS effect, Turner Field, Fenway, and how baseball can slowly make a new city feel like home. A Historian Tour episode can turn into a patient walk through Milwaukee County Stadium, Braves Field, public funding, lights, batter’s eyes, Perrini’s Woods, and the way ballparks teach history through their design. The tone is conversational and bright. It is not detached analysis. It is team media with a fan’s memory and an employee’s proximity. Sam Wallace’s appearances give the show a strong archival lane, especially when the Braves’ move to Atlanta, the franchise’s long continuity, and the history spread around Truist Park become the center of the episode. The “FINALLY! The ’95 Braves” episodes add a fuller documentary feel. Those installments bring in memories of the lead-up, opening day, Bobby Cox’s influence, the division series against Colorado, Marquis Grissom’s spark, Tom Glavin’s challenge, David Justice’s storytelling, and the larger emotional weight of the championship season. The show also knows when to loosen up. Mark Owens returning to Braves Vision becomes a warm, teasing conversation about game-day routine, A-list membership, tickets, parking, and the odd realities of working around a team everyone wants to see. Tyler Reddick’s visit folds NASCAR into the Braves world through a Truist Park stop, the Daytona 500 trophy, autograph lines, and Ricky Mast’s family connection to Rick Mast. Greg Mize’s episode looks inward at marketing, innovation, and the people behind the podcast itself. Across these episodes, Behind the Braves keeps one clear promise: the franchise is bigger than the current schedule. It is made of ballparks, broadcasts, reunions, promotions, lifelong fans, and people who remember where they were when a season finally turned into history.
Made for: Built for Atlanta Braves fans who care about franchise history, ballpark culture, memories, and the people working around the club. It especially suits listeners who enjoy official access with a relaxed, conversational pace.
What sets it apart: Behind the Braves has direct organizational proximity, so episodes can move naturally from current Truist Park events to staff stories, historian-led tours, and championship retrospectives. Few team shows combine front-office texture, archival detail, and fan nostalgia this closely.
Behind the Braves, the official podcast of the Atlanta Braves, takes fans on a journey to uncover the stories - known and untold - about our beloved team. Former Braves closer, World Series champion and current director of alumni relations Greg McMichael and MLB.com's Ricky Mast are joined by Braves legends, players and even famous fans, to share the passion and history of this proud franchise.
Based on 6 episodes we listened to · September 2026
Behind the Braves turns team access into oral history, connecting championship memories, ballpark evolution, and present-day institutional life.
Behind the Braves treats a baseball franchise as a living institution, with Ricky Mast and Greg McMichael moving between team history, front-office work, and conversations with former players and personnel.
An airplane clinch, vanished center-field bleachers: your Braves nostalgia finally has footnotes.
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Short reviews from the PlayNext desk, based on the episodes we processed.
A Braves origin story told by the person who helped set the show in motion.
Greg Mize's turn on Behind the Braves works as both an origin story and a bit of in-house conversation. It looks back to the show's launch in September 2018, the roughly 250-episode run, and the running joke about running out of guests, while also showing why his role matters:…
A Braves ballpark tour where trees and electric lights trace how the game changed.
Behind the Braves' Historian Tour follows the club's ballpark past through Milwaukee County Stadium, using its practical choices to show how baseball's settings changed.
A Braves making-of piece with a warm David Justice portrait and on-the-road production detail.
Behind the Braves settles into a making-of look at Finally, the 95 Braves, and its strongest stretch comes from Ricky Mast's account of flying to California in May to line up interviews before the 95 team reunion at Truist Park in August.
Grissom and Glavine anchor a postseason look at the Braves' 1995 October run.
Behind the Braves turns its 1995 championship frame toward October, tracking the shift from the NLDS against Colorado into the NLCS and then to Cleveland.
A reflective three-part look back at the 1995 Braves, told by the people around the club.
Behind the Braves revisits the 1995 Atlanta Braves in a three-part reflection hosted by Ricky Mast. It draws on about 20 players, coaches, and front office personnel, moving from the long wait after 1994 to the return of opening day in 1995 and the wider emotions of the season.
A warm reunion recap that keeps Braves history human and close.
Behind the Braves treats the 30th anniversary celebration of the 1995 World Series team at Truist Park as a reunion first and a recap second. Greg McMichael joins Ricky Mast to look back on the parade through the field, the pregame ceremonies, and the simple pleasure of seeing…
Nebraska athletics, close up and week by week.
Cubs recaps with bleacher-level patience.
Ricky Mast and Mark Bowman discuss the Atlanta Braves' disappointing 2025 season and look ahead to potential off-season roster moves for 2026.
Greg Mize, the Braves' Vice President of Marketing and Innovation, revisits the infamous Limp Bizkit tweet from his first day in MLB's Chelsea training room.
In this Historian Tour episode of Behind the Braves, the Braves Historian walks through all six ballparks the franchise has called home since 1871, starting with South End Grounds in Boston, which held 5,000 fans and burned down mid-game in 1894 when spectators were too distracted by a brawl to notice the fire.
Tyler Reddick breaks down how split-second lane choices and a push from Riley shaped his Daytona 500 victory.
Mark Owens returns to the Braves in 2026 for about 40 home games after leaving his stadium-host role in 2022.
Ricky Mast introduces a new recurring series with Braves historian Sam Wallace, discussing Braves history and upcoming events like Braves Fest and spring training.
Ricky Mast turns Behind the Braves into a production diary for The Making Of "FINALLY!
Atlanta's best record still sent the Braves to Coors Field against Colorado's 200-home-run lineup, and Part 2 of Behind the Braves follows that 1995 postseason path into Cincinnati.
["Behind the Braves' special series \"Finally, the 95 Braves,\" presented by Harrah's Cherokee Casinos, frames the 1995 Atlanta Braves as a story about pressure.", "Ricky Mast hosts as Braves Senior Manager of Digital Media Content, and team historian Sam Wallace supplies the franchise history.", "The first part asks how the 1991-94 postseason losses and the 1994 strike shaped the club headed into 1995.", "It ends this segment by moving from opening day against the San Francisco Giants to a June 12 charter flight that filled with smoke before takeoff."]
["Behind the Braves centers on the Atlanta Braves' 30th anniversary celebration of the 1995 World Series team at Truist Park, with Ricky Mast hosting Greg McMichael.", "McMichael says about 31 alumni attended the one-day reunion, including Bobby Cox, John Schuerholz, Ned Yost, and Clarence Jones, and he says the group picked up \"right where you left off from 30 years ago.\"", "He describes Bobby Cox at the tunnel and in the suite, notes that three coaches and five players from that roster are gone, and names Dwight Smith, Matt Murray, Rod Nichols, Mike Sharperson, Jose Oliva, Jim Beecham, Jimmy Williams, and Pat Corrales.", "The conversation closes with McMichael previewing Braves country baseball and softball, fantasy camp, fall championships at Truist Park, and registration links at braves.com/growing-the-game, braves.com/BCBS, and braves.com/fantasy-camp."]
Ricky Mast interviews Danielle Bedasse, VP of Community Affairs and Executive Director of the Atlanta Braves Foundation, about her career and the foundation's work.
Ricky Mast interviews Mark Bowman about Braves offseason moves, history, and his book 'The Franchise'.
Kevin McAlpin joins Ricky Mast to preview the final regular season homestand of the 2024 Atlanta Braves season.