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Johnston Field’s glory years with Anniston baseball

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on October 27, 2018December 7, 2018

I’ve written about baseball in Anniston, thought about baseball in Anniston, researched baseball in Anniston, lamented the lack of baseball in Anniston, and I’m too young — translation: not old enough — to have watched a game during the heyday of Johnston Field.

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Ty Cobb’s Alabama stomping ground

  • by Phillip Tutor
  • Posted on October 20, 2018December 7, 2018

One of the quasi-mysteries about Ty Cobb’s overhyped weeks spent in Anniston, Alabama, in the summer of 1904 is the park where his team played. Its location isn’t a secret. But there are no known photographs of Cobb in an Anniston uniform or on the Anniston field. You want a holy grail? Find me a picture of Cobb wearing an Anniston jersey.

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