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9781588180773

The Crackers

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  • ISBN13:

    9781588180773

  • ISBN10:

    1588180778

  • Format: Hardcover
  • Copyright: 2003-07-01
  • Publisher: Hill Street Pr
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Summary

This is the first comprehensive history of Atlanta's original minor league baseball team. It is the complete chronicle of amateur and minor league baseball in Atlanta as told through the rise and fall of tyhe Atlanta Crackers (1901-1965). Never-before-published player interviews, extensive illustrations, photographs, charts and and memorabilia make this a definitive history of the team.

Table of Contents

PREFACE xi
FOREWORD xv
Bill Shipp
BATTING PRACTICE 1(6)
Where Center Field Is Forever
FIRST INNING 7(22)
Southern Crumbs to Atlanta Crackers
SECOND INNING 29(16)
Home Sweet Home: The Birth of Poncey Park
THIRD INNING 45(14)
The Finest Park in the Minors
FOURTH INNING 59(14)
A Mann Who Loved the Theater
FIFTH INNING 73(18)
Shattered Barriers
SIXTH INNING 91(30)
Those We Remember
SEVENTH INNING 121(16)
The Best Ballplayers Never Known
SEVENTH-INNING STRETCH 137(4)
Gabby Kemp Remembers Satch
EIGHTH INNING 141(16)
Black Crackers and ABCs
NINTH INNING 157(20)
A Natural Death
EXTRA INNING 177(4)
The Last Sentinel
AFTERWORD 181(4)
Bobby Dews
POST-GAME WRAP-UP 185(12)
Appendices
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY 197(2)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS 199(2)
INDEX 201

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