ATLANTA BLACK CRACKERS HERITAGE JERSEY

ATLANTA BLACK CRACKERS HERITAGE JERSEY

Color : Ivory

Features

- Cotton

- Team logo embroidery on sleeve front & back

Product Care

- Hand wash cold

- Hang dry

- Do not bleach

- Cool Iron

The Atlanta Black Crackers were founded as the Atlanta Cubs as a semiprofessional team of black college students. They began to play independently in 1919 and changed their name to the Black Crackers because fans had already begun to call them by that name. They were named after the local white league team, the Atlanta Crackers, of the Class A Southern Association. It was not unusual for white and Negro
league teams to have similar names, but in this case "Cracker" happened to be a colloquial and pejorative nickname for rural southern Whites.
Heritage Collection 
EST. 1920