Atlanta Used To Have a Minor League Baseball Team Called The CRACKERS??

[Rekkapryde]

:marlowhat::marlowhat::marlowhat:

DON'T ASK ME HOW!!!!

worse though was ........................


















































The Negro League Team was the BLACK CRACKERS!!!!

 

[El Coupeacabra]

I really, really, REALLY want this to be a serious issue...

But god damn it man that's funny as a motherfukker

 

[PortCityProphet]

Black man- Those crackers ain't shyt
White man- what you say boy

Black man- I said those crackers ain't shyt!

Lost in the ninth inning again

 

[Doobie Doo]

I got a lot of old negro league shirts. ONe of them is this team.

Maybe it was an inside joke. I mean, the term was around then.

 

[Green N' White]

Y'all know cracker is a term of endearment for some of them cuz of the words origin so I call these devils what they are.. devils.. no need to sugar coat shyt.

 

[Motife43]

Yeah man, I remember reading up on that a while back. The meaning behind the name was what intrigued me most.

Via wikipedia

Origin of the team's name
According to Tim Darnell, who wrote The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball, the origins of the team name is unknown.[5]

Darnell cites several possibilities as to why this name was chosen:

• A term that means a poor, white southerner
• Someone who is quick and efficient at a task
• In reference to plowboys who cracked the whip over animals
• A shortened version of "Atlanta Firecrackers", the earlier 1892 minor league team

However, this list does not represent the most likely origins of the name. The term cracker is derived from the Gaelic craic, meaning entertaining conversation or boasting, with the latter sense still attested in the idiom "not all [subject]'s cracked up to be."[6] It was used in the 18th century to denote Irish and Scottish colonists of the Deep South backcountry. The Earl of Dartmouth had this to say in a 1766 correspondence: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascals on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode."[6]

During the period of Reconstruction following the American Civil War, there was also a political party of the same name. Organized in Augusta, Georgia, this party's platform was one of "opposition to Catholics and segregation of blacks".[7]

While now sometimes used as a derogatory term for a white southerner that promotes racism, it is also used as a term of pride by some white southerners to indicate one that is descended from those original settlers of the area.[6]

Ironically, as was the case in several other cities, Atlanta's local Negro league team was named after the local White league team: the Atlanta Black Crackers joined the Negro Southern League in 1920, and existed until the early 1950s.

 

[Knights89]

i knew about the black crackers from watching Ken Burns Baseball documentary

 

[CarltonJunior]

 

[Remote]

Then they shouldn't pretend to be offended over this team

 

[Ziggiy]

I really, really, REALLY want this to be a serious issue...

But god damn it man that's funny as a motherfukker

 

[AVXL]

:marlowhat::marlowhat::marlowhat:

DON'T ASK ME HOW!!!!

worse though was ........................


















































The Negro League Team was the BLACK CRACKERS!!!!

Serious question: Did you just find this out? I'm tempted to neg you if so...how you gonna be a black man who went to school in Atlanta and live in the Greater Atlanta area and follow sports and not know this is incredible

 

[IllmaticDelta]

cracker is actually a term of pride

Florida cracker refers to colonial-era English and American pioneer settlers and their descendants in what is now the U.S. state of Florida. The first of these arrived in 1763 after Spain traded Florida to Great Britain following the latter's victory over France in the Seven Years' War.[1]


The term "cracker" was in use during the Elizabethan era to describe braggarts. The original root of this is the Middle English word crack, meaning "entertaining conversation" (One may be said to "crack" a joke); this term and the Gaelicized spelling "craic" are still in use in Northern England, Ireland and Scotland. It is documented in William Shakespeare's King John (1595): "What cracker is this ... that deafes our ears / With this abundance of superfluous breath?"

By the 1760s, the ruling classes, both in Britain and in the American colonies, applied the term "cracker" to Scots-Irish and English American settlers of the remote southern back country, as noted in a letter to the Earl of Dartmouth: "I should explain to your Lordship what is meant by Crackers; a name they have got from being great boasters; they are a lawless set of rascalls on the frontiers of Virginia, Maryland, the Carolinas, and Georgia, who often change their places of abode."[2] The word was later associated with the cowboys of Georgia and Florida, many of them descendants of those early frontiersmen who had migrated South. Also used by Florida cowboys, as with picture of Florida cracker Bone Mizell.


Among some Floridians, the term is used as a proud or jocular self-description. Since the huge influx of new residents into Florida in the late 20th and early 21st centuries, from the northern parts of the United States and from Mexico and Latin America, the term "Florida Cracker" is used informally by some Floridians to indicate that their families have lived in the state for many generations. It is considered a source of pride to be descended from "frontier people who did not just live but flourished in a time before air conditioning, mosquito repellent, and screens."[5][6]

Florida cracker - Wikipedia

 

[Rekkapryde]

Serious question: Did you just find this out? I'm tempted to neg you if so...how you gonna be a black man who went to school in Atlanta and live in the Greater Atlanta area and follow sports and not know this is incredible

I didn't grow up here breh. Grew up in Charleston SC.

I seriously never heard of this shyt. That fitted is dope, I'm copping.

 

[Tribal Outkast]

:marlowhat::marlowhat::marlowhat:

DON'T ASK ME HOW!!!!

worse though was ........................


















































The Negro League Team was the BLACK CRACKERS!!!!

 

[TheGreatShowtime]

Why aren't they wearing pants though?