A real quick search without any knowledge found mostly hits about "Georgia Cracker" as a racial definition of a Georgian families. See below and find a little blub about the bats in a blog and ebay has some hits. However, this job "thing" does not let me get much deeper than that.
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There used to be a baseball bat factory in Athens, the Hanna Manufacturing Company. Hanna produced bats from 1926 until they went out of business in 1976.
Now should be the part when I wax nostalgic about our fine old bat factory, but I can’t. I remember using a Hanna bat or two in little league, and I remember that the factory was located near downtown, behind where the Classic Center is now, downhill toward the river – near where Tyrone’s was. And I vaguely remember getting a group tour of the place with some other schoolkids. Was there a lot of . . . sawdust? I couldn’t tell you. That’s the extent of what I recall about the Hanna bat factory.