Like most old men, like most brothers, they feel around in the past for a memory. They both find it, but only one of them is right. “Do you ever miss that 7UP plant?” Gerald Faught, 74, asks. “Not a day, yet,” Bobby Faught answers slyly, as though he really did remember. “How long did [...]
Replacing the nation’s leading hitter in home runs is not an easy task—especially for a freshman. But after left fielder Andrew Miller’s first series playing for the Crimson Tide this past weekend against South Alabama, he seemed to be having no trouble filling the past senior’s shoes. During the ninth inning of the final game [...]
Mitch Gaspard was nervous. Very nervous. It was 2 p.m. last Saturday, and the University of Alabama baseball team’s rookie head coach, a second-stint assistant for the retired Jim Wells since 2008, was about to lead the Crimson Tide onto the field as the program’s 30th head coach. Before the first pitch of the 2010 [...]
Much of the emphasis early in the baseball season has been placed on Alabama’s powerful hitting lineup, which boasts two preseason All-Americans, Ross Wilson and Jake Smith. But it’s the players who make noise with their arms, not their bats, who have Crimson Tide head coach Mitch Gaspard excited about his team’s fortunes this season. [...]
All dozen of you who consistently read the sports section of The Crimson White are familiar with Jason Galloway’s tremendous love for Alabama gymnastics, developed over several years of covering Sarah Patterson’s fantastic program. While worth a small snicker, it makes the job of following the team for the entire season seem far better than [...]
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