From baseball to trapshooting, and auto racing to swimming, the people who made Atlanta into the sports capital of the world.

101 Atlanta Sports Legends

Darnell, Tim

Sammartano, Kim

Sports & Outdoors

CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform

In 1954, Nat Peeples became history's first African American to play baseball in the tradition-rich Southern Association. Jackie Robinson once told Peeples that his task would be harder than No. 42's, because Peeples would have to play in the Deep South. Now, for the first time in book form, here is Peeples' story, from his humble beginnings in Memphis to his tours with black baseball's greatest players, to that historic night in Mobile, Alabama, in 1954.

The South's Jackie Robinson: How Nat Peeples broke baseball's color barrier ... in the Deep South (American Pioneers)

Baseball

A history of the Atlanta minor league team spanning 60 years

The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball

History

Americas

Hill Street Press

The ultimate college trivia colleciton

Georgia Tech Trivia Book (College Trivia)

Reference

Beginning in an era before traffic jams, air-conditioning, and Atlanta’s ascension to international fame, Tim Darnell chronicles the emergence of amateur and minor-league baseball in various forms in Atlanta from just after the Civil War through the rise of the Crackers (1901–65).
Through never-before-published player interviews, rare illustrations, extensive charts and statistics, and thorough research, Darnell examines the drama and politics that affected the Crackers over the years. Also profiled is the Black Crackers, Atlanta’s Negro Southern League franchise whose success and popularity paralleled those of their white counterparts.
The Crackers is a light-hearted, fun, and engrossing history of a time, a people, and one very special centerfield magnolia tree whose stories are legend to this day.
Includes a Crackers Trivia Quiz, and appendices with records and statistics.

University of Georgia Press

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101 Atlanta Sports Legends

The South's Jackie Robinson: How Nat Peeples broke baseball's color barrier ... in the Deep South (American Pioneers)

The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball

Georgia Tech Trivia Book (College Trivia)

The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball