
All-Time Georgia-Born All-Star Team
In anticipation of hosting SABR 40, the Magnolia Chapter has…

Ty Cobb, Actor
During the first years of the twentieth century many of the most…

Ty Cobb as Seen through the Eyes of a Batboy
COLLABORATOR’S NOTE: My friendship with James Fargo (Jimmy)…

The Red Clay of Waycross: Minor-League Spring Training in Georgia with the Milwaukee Braves
Other than being eaten alive and shot at, Waycross was great.…

Milo’s Memories: When the Braves Came to Atlanta
COLLABORATOR’S NOTE: Between his big-league broadcasting debut…

The Franchise Transfer That Fostered a Broadcasting Revolution
When the Milwaukee Braves’ baseball franchise was transferred…

Marvelous Murphy: Too Good to Ignore
The yardstick for enshrinement in Cooperstown is generally determined…

The Card in the Baseball Cap: “Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win! Braves Win!”
All baseball fans can attest to the truism that baseball is a…

Working to Play, Playing to Work: The Northwest Georgia Textile League
Floyd County, Georgia, in the northwest corner of the state,…

The Atlanta Black Crackers
Atlanta’s baseball history is dominated by names such as Hank…

That Was Quick!
The average time required to play a major-league baseball game…

Three Georgia-Born Former Dodgers Lead the Crackers to a Pennant
A 1950 preseason poll of Southern Association sportswriters picked…

Joe Reliford: The Inning of a Lifetime
One inning of Class D ball made Joe Louis Reliford a baseball…

Spring Training in Georgia: The Yannigans Are Coming!
From the beginning of professional baseball in the nineteenth…

Braves Alphabet
A is for AARON—“Hammerin’ Hank” and Tommie, too—
and…

The All-Time Atlanta Braves All-Star Team
In addition to an All-Time Georgia-born All-Star team, the Magnolia…

Remembering Skip
"Skip and Pete" — Caray and Van Wieren — broadcast Atlanta…

Ms. Eliza Gets a Seat
It wasn't April Fools Day, but it was a Friday the 13th; maybe…

Frank Anderson: The Dean of Southern College Baseball Coaches, 1916–1944
[He] could watch a player plow a field and tell whether there…

Red Moore: He Could Pick It!
Whenever a Negro Leagues veteran is asked about James “Red”…

Help in High Places
On May 3, 1897, the ministers of Atlanta announced their determination…

Who’s Going to Pitch?
While controversies related to baseball in the nineteenth century…

Memphis Bill in Newnan
As the last National League player to bat .400 in a season, Bill…

The Empire State League: South Georgia Baseball in 1913
They played six days a week, May through August, under the punishing…