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All-Time Greatest Alabama Sports Stories (Alabama Fire Ant)

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This collection presents 26 accounts of memorable victories and bittersweet failures marking probably the most significant sports events in Alabama’s history, from 1899 through 1994. The stories capture the excitement of native son Willie Mays’s heroic backfield catch in 1954, Joe Namath’s shining defeat within the Orange Bowl, Auburn’s stunning basketball win over Kentucky, and Alabama’s unforgettable Rose Bowl victory.

The stories cover a number of arenas of sport—football, basketball, golf, baseball, tennis, auto racing—and are sprinkled with the glories of both notables and relative unknowns. “Prelude to a Grand Slam” describes how a young Bobby Jones won the Birmingham golf tournament on his approach to the national crown, at the same time as “Grand Champion” is the story of blind golfer Charley Boswell. We learn concerning the “night Hank Aaron out-homered Babe Ruth” and how the father-son duo of Bobby and Davey Allison shone at Daytona Speedway. There are pieces on high school football heroics and Dixie Series baseball and one at the historic football rivalry between Auburn University and The University of Alabama.

Sixteen of the stories were written by Benny Marshall and seemed in his book Twenty Grand, published in 1968. Additional stories were contributed by sportswriters Clyde Bolton, Jim Martin, Wayne Martin, Phillip Marshall, and Wendell Givens. Collectively, they offer a panoply of highlights so they can delight sports fans in all places, especially in Alabama, where sport is nigh to obsession.

 

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