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Kennesaw, GA 30144
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Vanished Kennesaw

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Kennesaw Smokers – from the collection of Mrs. Frances Thompson

“By crossing the tracks with an overhead bridge progress did away with another landmark, the town ball field. Home plate was near the present intersection of Sardis and South Main Streets with the batter hitting toward the northwest. Occasionally Mr. Trunn Baldwin, who lived across the tracks in the house now occupied by Mr. Caylor, would find a ball in his front yard. But it took a prodigious swat to clear the tracks, they were few and far between.

In the early twenties Kennesaw had a very good country ball club, managed by one Joe Gluck, and they played against all the neighboring communities, Dallas, Woodstock, Emerson and Hill's Park in Atlanta and even as far away as Copper Hill, Tennessee. The team was called "The Kennesaw Smokers, advertising a popular brand of cigars of those days. Those also were the days when they could cool their throats with a drink from the spring down behind the present sawmill. Some of the players were Buster Robertson, Bob and Lawton Bozeman, Mel Pendley, Morris Brooks, Horace Adams and many others now long dead and forgotten.” (From The History of Kennesaw as Written by Mark H. Smith; unpublished section)

"This picture is from the collection of Billie Frey. We know it is a baseball game in Kennesaw in the early 20th centruy, but we are not sure of the location. We believe the house in the background was the home of the Lewis Family. If this is fact, this house is still standing on Lewis Street, and the game is being played close to what is now Adams Park." (Joe Bozeman)

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