Atlanta's First Baseball Team | Georgia Stories
On this episode of Georgia Stories; before the Braves professional baseball team moved from Milwaukee to Atlanta in 1966, the minor league Atlanta Crackers were the talk of the South. Crackers radio announcer Hank Morgan explains the allure of the baseball park during the time period. Former players explain what playing for the team meant for them and for the city.
Original Air Date: 04/15/1994
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LOL... I'm moving into an apartment next month right on other side of the beltline about 50 feet from those two trees and I'll have a perfect view of them from my patio 😎
When baseball was baseball
Is there any such footage black and white and or color of the club playing in newly open Atlanta stadium? Thank you Billy
It wasn’t “Fulton County” Stadium then. It was Atlanta Stadium. “Fulton County” was added in 1975.
I remember going to see the Atlanta Crackers, the seat was segregated, I would sit with my friends out near the railroad tracks. They were the best seats in town, the stadium was torn down, and replaced with a strip mall, with Arland's as the anchor store. The old sears and roebuck store sat across the street where my dad bought our first color television set. Growing up in the old fourth ward with its small enclave of small community's with in the fourth ward was unique. I drive through the area, looking for the homes that once stood where my friends lived, only to find that they have moved, are died. Gentrification has now taken over, a home once own by a classmate is now own by a couple, and the price for that home is well over a hundred thousands of dollars, and that's on the conservative estimation. Renovated and new homes are driving up the prices of homes where the last of the old guard children are being taxed out of their homes, thats been in the family for well over several generations.
I'm sick of this not being able to play baseball anymore because i'm not under the age of 19. The MABL leagues are sparing. I understand adults are too busy to be in leagues. I'm going to make a grass roots baseball for adults that just want to play and organize with locals and play in single sandlot style games. If anything just to get people more interested in playing again.