Atlanta Black Crackers

Atlanta Black Crackers

Atlanta Black Crackers

1932

Leagues

Independent

Negro Southern League (1920-1937

Negro American League (1938)

Significant Players


Nat Peeples

Roy Welmaker

James "Red" Moore

The Atlanta Black Crackers was a professional baseball team which played in the Negro League. The Crackers were founded in 1919 and folded in 1952. During the 1920s, they shared Ponce de Leon Park with their Southern League counterparts, the Atlanta Crackers. The Black Crackers won the Negro American League second half pennant, but scheduling problems and umpire controversies caused the series to be canceled.

Following Jackie Robinson's breaking of Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, the Negro League as well as the Black Crackers continued to exist for only a short time thereafter, finally disbanding in 1952.

References and external links

* [http://www.artisanartsonline.com/606/cat606.htm Listing at ArtisanArtsOnline.com]
* [http://www.itsablackthang.com/images/Negro-League-Baseball/Atlanta-Black-Crackers-cap-L.jpgListing at itsablackthing.com]
* [http://www.libs.uga.edu/russell/online-exhibits/baseball/gabball.html "Legends of the Dead-Ball Era"]


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