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The Atlanta Crackers were a Minor League Baseball team based in Atlanta, Georgia, between 1901 and 1965. The Crackers were Atlanta's home team until the Atlanta Braves moved from Milwaukee, Wisconsin , in 1966.
This was the largest baseball crowd to date in the city's history. [ 5 ] The first integrated crowd of White European-Americans and Black and brown African-Americans at a professional sporting event in Atlanta took place at Ponce de Leon Park on April 8, 1962, for the preseason exhibition game between the Philadelphia Phillies and St. Louis ...
This is for players of the Atlanta Crackers minor league baseball team, that played in the Southern Association in 1895 and 1903-1961 and the International League from 1961-1965. Contents Top
These are Atlanta Black Crackers players who appeared in at least one game for the Black Crackers from 1919 to 1938, or the Indianapolis ABCs in 1939. On-going research continuously discovers unreported or misreported games (and the affected players), while some games and players may be lost forever.
By now, Jackie Robinson had broken the Major League Baseball color line and interest in Negro league games waned dramatically. The Black Crackers were slated to play the 1948 season in the NSL, but no season appears to have been played. Instead, Atlanta left to compete in the newly formed Negro American Association. [4]
With 18 pennant wins, the Atlanta Crackers won the most regular season pennants in the history of the Southern Association. They are followed by the New Orleans Pelicans (9); Birmingham Barons , Memphis Egyptians/Chicks , and Nashville Baseball Club/Vols (8); Chattanooga Lookouts and Little Rock Travelers (4); and Mobile Bears (2).
The Atlanta Black Crackers were founded as the Atlanta Cubs as a semiprofessional team of black college students. They began to play independently in 1919 and changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name.
Before the Braves moved to Atlanta, the Atlanta Crackers were Atlanta's professional baseball team from 1901 until their last season in 1965. They won 17 league championships in the minor leagues. The Atlanta Black Crackers (I) and Atlanta Black Crackers (II) were Atlanta's Negro league teams from 1919 until 1949.