Exploring Montgomery

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stadium

“It’s a top-of-the-line stadium in the SWAC,” said Jon Roblez, volunteer coach and former pitcher for ASU. Alabama State University’s baseball stadium holds 500 and sits next to the colossal ASU water tower. The stadium was built in 2011 after Larry Watkins fronted the overhaul of the baseball program at […]

Wheeler-Watkins Baseball Stadium

July 6, 2018 in Education tagged aum media writing / baseball / stadium / watkins / wheeler

Located right off Carter Hill Road, allowed Hornet Baseball to return to the campus in 2011, with the opening game held here back in March 2011. The former campus baseball field was displaced by the track and field up-grades which were carried out in 1996 to accommodate remote activities of […]

Alabama State Baseball Stadium

February 2, 2018 in Education tagged asu / baseball / stadium

asu stadium construction 2 — 22,000 seats; eight stories high; looms over I-85. $50,000,000 budgeted, but definitely ran over. Part of $250-million in ongoing campus projects. So much construction traffic that old men are at risk when they go on campus to take pics. -Charles Humphries

ASU Stadium

August 11, 2017 in Education tagged asu / stadium

Crampton Bowl — Cramton bowl is on Madison Avenue, and long past its glory, but it did have its era. It was built in 1922, and officially seats 25,000 or so. Both API (Auburn) and Alabama played here up until the late 1930s, and API continued to schedule non-conference games here until the late 1940s. […]

Cramton Bowl

March 10, 2016 in Commercial / Education / Places and Things tagged asu / bowl / crampton / faulkner / stadium

Inside Stadium — … at the corner of Tallapoosa and Coosa Streets, is surely the centerpiece of Montgomery’s riverfront development. The home of the Montgomery Biscuits. Opened in 2004 with a capacity of 6,000 fans. It is said to be the best utilization of an existing building in stadium design, of any minor league […]

Riverfront Stadium

February 22, 2016 in Commercial tagged biscuits / riverfront / stadium