This year’s SEC baseball tournament will showcase some new amenities at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, including a new ferris wheel and an indoor event center. (more…)
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Hoover to Vote on Sports Complex Management
The Hoover City Council is to vote on a management company for a new sports complex that will be adjacent to Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. (more…)
SEC Tournament Staying in Hoover
After months of speculation about its future, the SEC Baseball Tournament will remain at Hoover, AL’s Hoover Metropolitan Stadium. The event is set to return to the ballpark next year, and for a yet-to-be-determined period beyond 2017. (more…)
Will SEC baseball tourney remain in Hoover?
With the contract for the annual Southeastern Conference baseball tourney at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium set to expire next year, you can expect SEC officials to shop the popular event this summer. (more…)
City commits additional spending on Hoover Met; concerts now target
Seeking to diversify the offerings at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium, the local city council pledged $352,000 in additional facility improvements, including a big electrical-system upgraded needed to attract big-time musical tours. All in all, the city has authorized $1.5 million in ballpark upgrades since the Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League) moved to a new downtown […]
Barons to open new ballpark tonight
It will be a new era of baseball tonight in Alabama, as the Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League) will open up a new downtown ballpark after a 25-year stint in the suburbs. The new ballpark, Regions Field, is the merger of two visions: one, from city officials who wanted to see pro baseball return […]
Barons: We’ll be playing at new ballpark in ’13
It seems a little hurried to us, but Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League) management says they’ll be ready to play at a new downtown ballpark next season. It’s an issue constantly being addressed by GM Jonathan Nelson: whether Regions Field will be open for play next April. The answer is yes. “There’s still an […]
SEC tourney live and streaming
There’s some awfully good baseball being played at the annual SEC baseball tournament, and ESPN is streaming game coverage via the SEC website. The tourney, from Hoover’s Regions Park, is annually one of the better showcases for college talent anywhere: the SEC is pretty clearly the best conference in college baseball and its schools attracts […]
New for 2013: Regions Field
Regions Bank will keep its naming-rights deal with the Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League), as the team’s new downtown ballpark will be known as Regions Field when it opens in 2013. The Barons had a naming-rights/branding deal with Regions Bank at their current home, Regions Park in suburban Hoover. That relationship will continue at […]
American Association: We’d be interested in Hoover team
Commissioner Miles Wolff says the independent American Association is interested in placing a team at Regions Park, set to be vacated in 2013 by the Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League). The Barons are set to move to a new downtown ballpark for the 2013 season, assuming construction goes smoothly. That would leave Regions Park, […]
SEC tourney site selection goes down to the wire
Southeastern Conference officials are close to recommending a site — or sites, as it ends up — for the annual baseball tournament in coming years, and so far it seems like Hoover has a slight advantage in landing the event once again. The annual SEC baseball tournament has become a big event, with crowds of […]
Birmingham: We want Hoover to keep SEC tourney
Birmingham (Al.) officials say they will support nearby Hoover’s bid to keep the Southeastern Conference baseball tourney in Regions Park, avoiding an intraregional spat for the rights to the well-attended event. Things are already tense between Birmingham and Hoover officials over Birmingham’s plans to build a new downtown ballpark and the subsequent agreement by the […]
Barons reach deal to play at new ballpark
The last piece in a new downtown Birmingham ballpark is in place, as the owners of the Birmingham Barons (Class AA; Southern League) confirm they’ve reached initial agreement with the city on a lease, clearing the way for construction to begin. A letter of intent was signed yesterday. The participation of the Barons was key: […]