Download or read book Professional Baseball in Lower Alabama written by Joey Warner and published by . This book was released on 2017-01-16 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professional Baseball in Lower Alabama will display to the entire world just how much baseball players and people contributed to the City of Mobile through the wonderful sport of baseball. Mobile is best known for Mardi Gras, the Senior Bowl College football all-star game and good ole' Deep South outdoors on the Gulf Coast in Lower Alabama. The baseball players that were born, grew up, spent time and even died in the Port City are revealed and recognized. The chapters represent history of old Mobile baseball including the Negro Leagues. It contains content from the Southern League, Southern Association, Sally League and minor league teams from Mobile dating back to 1886. There are recaps of the Championship teams from the 1922 and 1947 Mobile Bears as well as Charlie Finley's 1966 Mobile A's. There are reports on the Mobile White Sox from 1970; Mobile Bay Sharks from 1994 and 1995 and Mobile Bay Bears, which completed its 20th season in 2016. There have been countless major leaguers that have played minor league baseball in Mobile, Alabama. Although there is so much more baseball history from Mobile, this title represents minor league baseball at its best along the Gulf Coast. The history of minor league baseball in Mobile, Alabama is as traditional as Alabama Crimson Tide football. Alabama has won four Collegiate National football championships (NCAA) in the last seven years under the leadership of the historic coach Nick Saban. The Tide won five titles from 1961 to 1979 behind the legendary coach Paul "Bear" Bryant. The state of Alabama is dominated by college football while the goal of this book is to rejuvenate the excitement of the history of baseball in Mobile within all sports fans, including College football fans.