Atlanta Black Ball Club
Ownership
George M Carson
Established
Aug 27 2016
Total Value
$ 0
World Titles
0
About Franchise
The Atlanta Black Crackers (originally known as the Atlanta Cubs) were a professional Negro league baseball team which played during the early-to-mid-20th century. They were primarily a minor Negro league team; however in the brief period they played as a major Negro league team, they won the second half of the 1938 split-season but lost the play-off for the Pennant.
The Atlanta Black Crackers were founded as the Atlanta Cubs following the start of the 20th century with a semiprofessional team of black college students. They began to play independently in 1919 and changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name.[1] They were named after the local White league team, the Atlanta Crackers, of the Class A Southern Association. It was not unusual for White and Negro league teams to have similar names, but in this case "Cracker" ironically happened to be a colloquial and originally pejorative nickname for rural southern Whites.
The Atlanta Black Crackers were founded as the Atlanta Cubs following the start of the 20th century with a semiprofessional team of black college students. They began to play independently in 1919 and changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name.[1] They were named after the local White league team, the Atlanta Crackers, of the Class A Southern Association. It was not unusual for White and Negro league teams to have similar names, but in this case "Cracker" ironically happened to be a colloquial and originally pejorative nickname for rural southern Whites.
