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Did you know the New York Yankees used to play the Crimson Tide in Tuscaloosa?
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:03 pm
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:03 pm
It’s true.
And also this...
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Paul Bryant and George Steinbrenner were good friends. The Yankees were back to back World Series Champions in 1977 and 1978. They came to Tuscaloosa to face the Crimson Tide in April of 1978.
And also this...
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The Yankees announced yesterday that they would play an exhibition game against the University of Alabama baseball team in Tuscaloosa on March 10.
Proceeds will go toward the construction of a Paul W. (Bear) Bryant Alumni-Continuing Education Center, to be built on the Tuscaloosa campus.
One Yankee, Butch Hobson, played under Bryant, college football's most successful head coach, who died last week at the age of 69. The newly scheduled game, on what had been an open date of the Yankees' schedule, gives them three exhibitions against college teams this spring. They play at the University of Jacksonville the day before the Alabama game and at Annapolis, Md., against the Naval Academy March 22.
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Paul Bryant and George Steinbrenner were good friends. The Yankees were back to back World Series Champions in 1977 and 1978. They came to Tuscaloosa to face the Crimson Tide in April of 1978.
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Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:15 pm to Tuscaloosa
Winners like winners.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:16 pm to Tuscaloosa
Even more reason to hate the Yankees
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:18 pm to Tuscaloosa
Pro teams use to play college teams all the time at the end of Spring Training. It was mainly for PR.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:20 pm to Irons Puppet
They played at Florida too. I remember hearing a media story one year. Someone stole Ricky Henderson's shoes when they were there.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:21 pm to starsandstripes
That would be butthurtedness
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:30 pm to Tuscaloosa
Auburn is still bamas daddy. Pat dye still retired the old drunk fella. And Bo Jackson still told George S to get fricked.
Cool picks though.
Cool picks though.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:40 pm to Tuscaloosa
My family was on the way up for that one year, taking my sweet grandmother to see her favorite Yankees. We got to skip school and everything. We were so jacked up.
We got a little north of Prattville and we're listening to the radio when the DJ comes on and says "If you were on the way to Tuscaloosa to see the Yankees play Alabama in a baseball exhibition today, you can forget it!"
Snowstorm of all things had come through Ttown. Me and my little brother cried like bitches on the way home.
Wonderful memories!
We got a little north of Prattville and we're listening to the radio when the DJ comes on and says "If you were on the way to Tuscaloosa to see the Yankees play Alabama in a baseball exhibition today, you can forget it!"
Snowstorm of all things had come through Ttown. Me and my little brother cried like bitches on the way home.
Wonderful memories!
This post was edited on 6/7/18 at 8:41 pm
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:44 pm to Tuscaloosa
Two greatest programs in American sports.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:45 pm to starsandstripes
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They played at Florida too. I remember hearing a media story one year. Someone stole Ricky Henderson's shoes when they were there
One of the many donations Steinbrenner has made over the years was paying for the lights to be installed at McKethan back in the 70’s. Used to bring the Yankees around quite often.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:48 pm to Tuscaloosa
Yea....and the bammers are claiming 9 World Series Championships
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:50 pm to Tuscaloosa
ahhhhh so this is where the bagmen started.
Smart move Bama. Wish we could have figured this one out
Smart move Bama. Wish we could have figured this one out
Posted on 6/7/18 at 8:54 pm to Tiger n Miami AU83
Spoken like a proud Auburn Man.
Posted on 6/7/18 at 9:01 pm to Tuscaloosa
I actually find the whole Yankee fan thing kinda funny. (Especially kids i met in school or grew up around)
“I’m Pete from Cheraw, i hate the north!”
(Pete from Cheraw is wearing a Yankees hat)
“I’m Pete from Cheraw, i hate the north!”
(Pete from Cheraw is wearing a Yankees hat)
Posted on 6/8/18 at 12:01 am to Tuscaloosa
They also played Grambling State
Posted on 6/8/18 at 8:01 am to Tuscaloosa
That would be cool as hell to see that now. Might have been a fair fight back in the gorilla ball days of the 90s if the college guys got to use the metal bats.
Posted on 6/8/18 at 8:35 am to Tuscaloosa
This is was very common thing in the early-mid 1900’s. For example, my Uncle told me and his best friend saw the Cleveland Indians play a semi-pro team here in Meridian in 1938 at the old Buckwalter Stadium (the old Fairgrounds in Meridian, you can see the remnants of the stadium on the S side of I20/59 as you pass through Meridian between the 29th and 22th Avenue exits).
They each got Bob Feller’s autograph and they said he signed autographs before and after the game.
In those days, MLB teams traveled by train and at the conclusion of spring training they would stop along the way from Florida to their home city and play exhibition games against local teams. It was great PR for the teams and helped build their fan bases during that era.
They each got Bob Feller’s autograph and they said he signed autographs before and after the game.
In those days, MLB teams traveled by train and at the conclusion of spring training they would stop along the way from Florida to their home city and play exhibition games against local teams. It was great PR for the teams and helped build their fan bases during that era.
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Posted on 6/8/18 at 8:57 am to Sid E Walker
Why don’t you jock ride the patriots and play a game in Foxboro
Posted on 6/8/18 at 8:59 am to Tuscaloosa
Coastal Carolina and the Texas Rangers played an exhibition game in 2011.
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Prior to a host of substitutions in the sixth inning, including Texas pitchers pitching to their own players over the final three innings, Coastal Carolina trailed the defending American League Champion Rangers just 2-1 Tuesday night in an exhibition game at BB&T Coastal Field. Texas would go on to win 6-2 before a standing-room only crowd of 6,599, just the 10th time the facility was filled to capacity.
In the top of the first, reigning Big South Player of the Week Tommy La Stella got the first hit of the game. In the home half, Matt Rein worked a perfect 1-2-3 inning with three ground outs. The highlight though was when Rein threw an impressive slider that fooled 2010 AL MVP Josh Hamilton and got a great reaction from the crowd.
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