One member of that rag-tag Macon baseball team, Brian Snitker, is now the manager of the Atlanta Braves. Who were they? It was easily the tallest building for miles. macon high saw something good in sweet. Macon County. In 1834, Governor Joseph Duncan proposed a train line to run through Decatur. Sweet immediately intrigued Britton, who was a conservative principal in every respect but one: the hiring of teachers. It is still one of the most remarkable accomplishments that district achieved athletically that is now a consolidated district with Blue Mound. My family lived in and around Elwin/Macon for may generations. He is a very strong personality. I must admit my prejudice about this bookmy brother played on the Macon team and my parents along with many other fine people worked to support them. Whatever the reason, there is a warm spot in many hearts for the innocence represented by high school teams, coaches and athletes.Chris Ballard is a senior writer at Sports Illustrated who has seen and covered the sordid side of the professional sports. GLENCOE - Lynn Sweet, Washington bureau chief of the Chicago Sun-Times, will discuss contemporary changes in politics and news coverage at the Aitz Hayim Center for Jewish Living, 7 p.m. on Monday evening, July 31.The talk will be part of Aitz Hayim's Tisha B'Av observance, held at North Shore Congregation Israel, 1185 Sheridan Road, Glencoe. It's a book about heart." In fact, when he got the call from Macon principal Roger Britton in the fall of 1965 inviting him to interview for a job teaching English, the first thing Sweet did was ask where, exactly, the town was. They had no TV, no cell phones, and no night games until 1927 when In February 2007, when he announced his Presidential bid, Sweet wrote in the Sun-Times, "Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) used campaign donations generated by PACs and lobbyists to bankroll the birth of his White House bid though hes banning that money for his presidential 2008 race."[15]. //