The Atlanta Tomboys started as an amateur, later semi-professional, women's basketball and softball team, both organized and coached by Johnny Moon (1906-1994). He started the basketball team in 1944 and founded the softball team four years later to compete against the Lorelei Ladies. Both the Atlanta Tomboys softball and basketball teams were invited to play in various competitions, including the Class A City Recreation Girls League, the Women's National AAU Basketball Tournament, the Metropolitan Tourney, the Southeastern Region Tournament, and the World Tournament. The teams played in several states and in three countries: Canada, Cuba, and Mexico. Some of the players, including Mickey Davis (1942-) and Jean Dowell (1943-), continued careers in sports after their time with the Atlanta Tomboys. The Atlanta Tomboys won the 1953 Georgia State Championship and played in over a thousand games by 1986. Moon was inducted into the Georgia Sports Hall of Fame in 1987. The Atlanta Tomboys teams played together until the late 1990s.