Ahead of next month’s SEC Baseball Tournament, Hoover Metropolitan Stadium in suburban Birmingham is receiving a variety of upgrades. (more…)
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New Amenities Debuting at Hoover Metropolitan Stadium
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…)
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…)
Hoover Working to Keep SEC Tourney
As the battle to land the SEC Tournament unfolds, Hoover, AL officials say that they are working to ensure that the event does not leave its longtime home. (more…)
SEC to Visit Zephyr Field
As the SEC searches for a home for its tournament in 2017 and beyond, conference officials will visit New Orleans’ Zephyr Field on April 30. To boost their ballpark’s chances of landing the tournament, the New Orleans Zephyrs (Class AAA; Pacific Coast League) are planning a special promotion for that evening’s game. (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…)
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 […]
Regions Park / Birmingham Barons
Regions Park is a big ballpark. Really big. Built to Triple-A specs at a time when Triple-A specs actually meant something, Regions Park is the very huge home of the Birmingham Barons. Too big, really, for the Barons. (But not too big for the SEC Baseball Tournament, which ended last week drawing 9,957 fans a […]