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The Atlanta Black Crackers were a professional Negro league baseball team which played during the early-to-mid-20th century.
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The Crackers were founded in 1919. During the 1920s, they shared Ponce de Leon Park with their white Southern League counterparts, the Atlanta Crackers.
The Black Crackers won the Negro American League second half pennant in 1938, but scheduling problems and umpire controversies caused their series with the Memphis Red Sox to be canceled.
Following Jackie Robinson's breaking of Major League Baseball's color barrier in 1947, the Negro League as well as the Black Crackers continued to exist for only a short time thereafter, finally disbanding in 1952.
On June 28, 1997, the Atlanta Braves wore 1938 Black Crackers home uniforms and the visiting Philadelphia Phillies wore 1938 Philadelphia Stars road uniforms.[1]