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The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball
A history of the Atlanta minor league team spanning 60 years
224 pages, Hardcover
First published March 1, 2003
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September 17, 2021
An interesting topic but the book has a hard time putting together a complete story. It contains snippets of information for seasons and names several players but only goes into details about a few events and people. Quite often lists the record for the season and the leading batter and pitcher for the season with no other information. If you are not a baseball fan or historian, you have no context for these players. Did they make the majors, have successful baseball careers, successful lives? More depth on fewer individuals and events would have made the book more enjoyable.
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January 26, 2016Gotta commend the author for trying to tackle an ambitious topic - 60+ years of minor league baseball in Atlanta (including the Negro Leagues). Therein, is the problem - too ambitious. Instead of focusing on a few compelling stories OR a small set of themes to summarize the period, the book is a very cursory summary of year after year - often it reads like a prose recount of dry statistics (e.g. "The Atlanta Crackers finished in 5th place in 1934.") Clearly one to take a free pass on.
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