1909 Atlanta Crackers season explained

Atlanta Crackers
Year:1909
League Penant:yes
League:Southern Association
Ballpark:Ponce de Leon Park
League Place:1st
Manager:Billy Smith
Owner:John Heisman

The 1909 Atlanta Crackers season represented the Atlanta Crackers baseball team in the Southern Association and won the league pennant.[1] [2] [3] John Heisman was president of the group of owners.[4] The team was managed by Billy Smith and led by Dutch Jordan. The team included Tommy Atkins, Scotty Barr, Bill Bartley, Dick Bayless, Roy Castleton, Tom Fisher, Enos Kirkpatrick, Roy Moran, and Syd Smith.[5] [6] Manager Billy Smith credited Syd Smith as the team's best player.[7]

The Crackers had just a .222 batting average on the season. Both Tom Fisher and Harold Johns had 20-win seasons, and Tommy Atkins won 19. Only Nashville's Hub Perdue won more games as a pitcher in the Southern Association.[8]

Notes and References

  1. Web site: 1909 Atlanta Crackers | Society for American Baseball Research. https://web.archive.org/web/20150926142937/http://sabr.org/content/1909-atlanta-crackers. dead. September 26, 2015. sabr.org.
  2. Web site: The Book of Baseball: The National Game from the Earliest Days to the Present Season. William. Patten. Joseph Walker. McSpadden. February 11, 1911. P.F. Collier. Google Books.
  3. Web site: Spalding's Official Baseball Record. February 11, 1915. Google Books.
  4. Web site: Heisman had Minor League connection. MiLB.com.
  5. Web site: 1909 Atlanta Crackers Statistics. Baseball-Reference.com.
  6. The Crackers: Early Days of Atlanta Baseball, by Tim Darnell, 2003
  7. Web site: Syd Smith – Society for American Baseball Research.
  8. Web site: 1909 Southern League (SL) minor league baseball Leaders on StatsCrew.com.