In that moment, Alterman fell in love. With baseball. With the Atlanta Crackers. It is a love that has spanned some five decades, that has given birth to a 50th anniversary celebration of the team ...

The Atlanta Crackers were a minor league baseball team in the Southern Association (1901-1971 Double A) and International Association (1962-1965 Triple A).

In the summer of 1940, my family moved from a small town in Georgia to Atlanta. My father took me out to the ball game, to root for the home team. That was the Atlanta Crackers. Talk about derogatory!

ATLANTA — The Atlanta Black Crackers made Ponce de Leon Park in the Old Fourth Ward their home for two decades. They played opposite the Atlanta Crackers minor league ball team in the 1920s and ...

COLUMBUS, Ga. (WTVM) - The Columbus Chatt-a-Hoots beat the Atlanta Crackers, ... the Hoots remain tied with the Gainesville Gol’Diggers for first place in the Sunbelt Baseball League. The team ...

The Brooklyn Dodgers had scheduled three exhibition games against the Atlanta Crackers to be played in early April 1949, in Atlanta. The Ku Klux Klan was not pleased, not because the presence of ...

The Washington Football Team did it. Cleveland's baseball team is doing it next season, becoming the Guardians. The Atlanta baseball team, however, has said it has no intention of changing.

Moore started out playing baseball with hand-me-down equipment at around 12 to 13 years old. He said he played for the Oakland City Clubs before getting a try-out with the Atlanta Black Crackers.

Playing for a Sunbelt League championship is becoming familiar for the Atlanta Crackers baseball team. So is winning, as the Norcross-based team won their fourth straight SBL title by taking two ...

Perhaps no other game illustrates the Crackers' heart more than the night they were up against the Little Rock Travelers in May 1954, said Atlantan Richard Kelly, a left-handed pitcher for the team.