Poor, forsaken, Paterson Field Baseball Stadium . . . on Madison Avenue, directly across from Cramton Bowl. It was built in 1949; its 7,000 capacity made it an impressive facility back then. In its heyday it was home field for the reincarnated Montgomery Rebels, a Class AA minor league affiliate of the Detroit Tigers (in 1980 that team moved up I-85 to become the Birmingham Barons). For 20 years after that the field was site of the annual NCAA Division II Baseball Championships. More recently, Paterson served as home field of Alabama State before they built their on stadium.

-Charles Humphries