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1947 Northwest Georgia Textile League champions.

Working to Play, Playing to Work: The Northwest Georgia Textile League

Floyd County, Georgia, in the northwest corner of the state,…
Posing for a team photo before a game.

The Atlanta Black Crackers

Atlanta’s baseball history is dominated by names such as Hank…
Site of one of the fastest baseball games ever played.

That Was Quick!

The average time required to play a major-league baseball game…
Past and present members of the Thomasville Hornets pose with the team’s Empire State League pennant before the start of the 1914 season. Standing, left to right: Mitchell Davenport, Klump, Harry Champlin, “Red” Murch, Mabry, Manager Martin Dudley, Hal Barnett, George Wilkes, Hall, Vincent Roth, “Professor” Day, Schultz, Ealen, Telken, Kane. Front row, left to right: E. R. Jerger, Club Secretary; R. G. Mays, club president (1914); J. B. Jemison, club president (1913).

The Empire State League: South Georgia Baseball in 1913

They played six days a week, May through August, under the punishing…

The 1954 Dixie Series

On September 21, 1954, the Atlanta Crackers, champions of the…