When someone thinks of Alabama, they probably don’t think of baseball. In fact, Alabama is probably thought of as a state with very few famous people at all. Even if you were to tell someone that Alabama was the home of some great athlete, you’d probably think of football before baseball. So some people are […]
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Birmingham, Alabama, located near deposits of iron ore, coal, and limestone – the raw materials used in steelmaking – became the South’s leading industrial city in the late 1800s. In 1909, A.H. Woodward, the twentyish CEO of the Woodward Iron Company, purchased the Southern Association’s Birmingham Coal Barons. Their home grounds was a place named […]
Everyone knows baseball quotes like “play two” (Ernie Banks) and “it’s not over “until” (Yogi Berra). But, baseball has given us countless other great quotes that you haven’t heard before. Here’s an example. “I love my players in marriage and in debt. So promote them.” – Ernie Banks as a minor-league coach for the Cubs. […]
In the 1930s, the Great Depression threatened the game of baseball as a profitable business. After the Great Stock Market Crash, thousands of Americans found themselves unemployed. At this time, 1 out of every 4 people spent their free time traveling from town to town, setting up shantytowns along the railroads and even in central […]
With all the intense record keeping done in professional baseball, I always find it saddening that better, if not more accurate records were never kept in the Negro Leagues. In a lot of instances, great players were touted not so much by statistics but by legends propounded by their peers and fellow teammates. Had better […]