Atlanta’s major league baseball team, the Braves, began their Atlanta baseball history in 1966, but baseball’s history in Georgia predates the Atlanta Braves by nearly 100 years. Before the Braves, there were the Atlanta Crackers, a member of the Southern League and the Atlanta Black Crackers, charter members of the Negro Southern League. Though they […]
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A unique offer
Legendary Brooklyn Dodgers GM Branch Rickey set his sights on a member of the Atlanta Crackers and makes baseball history in the process on this week’s Stories of Atlanta.
