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In an effort to help baseball fans get into the proper mood before the 2009 season officially kicks off, here are some pages for the Braves fanatics.   All of the photographs seen here (except one) were shot at Ponce de Leon Park, the former home of the minor league Atlanta Crackers (and the Atlanta Black Crackers).

 

Jackie Robinson scrambles to get back to first base at this Dodgers exhibition game played in 1949.

     

      

Whitey Ford on the mound, 1953.

       

Casey Stengel, 1953.

 
 

      

Casey Stengel with Billy Martin at the ball park on Ponce de Leon, 1953.

 

Andy Carey at the plate, 1953.

Yogi Berra, 1953.

Atlanta Crackers vs. NY Yankees, 1953.

 

Atlanta Crackers vs. NY Yankees, 1953.

 

Atlanta Crackers vs. NY Yankees, 1953.

 

Billy Martin, 1953.

 

Atlanta Braves vs. NY Mets, Atlanta Stadium, 1969.

 

Pigalley, October 1967.

 

Donn Clendenon's Supper Club, 09/29/69

Phil Niekro's Knuckler Lounge, 10/13/69.

Donn Clendenon's Supper Club, 10/13/69.

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