The Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team represents the
University of Alabama
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in
NCAA Division I
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college baseball
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. Along with most other
Alabama athletic teams, the baseball team participates in the Western Division of the
Southeastern Conference
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. The team plays its home games on campus at
Sewell–Thomas Stadium
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.
History
The Crimson Tide baseball team leads the
SEC in all-time wins with over 2,500 victories. The program trails only
LSU for the most SEC regular season titles with 13 and 7 tournament championships. Tide baseball teams have participated in the
NCAA
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College World Series
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five times (
1950
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1999), finishing second in 1983 and 1997. The Crimson Tide have also had over 60 players make it to the major leagues, the most in the SEC.
Stadium
The team's home venue is
Sewell-Thomas Stadium, located in
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
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on the campus of the
University of Alabama
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. A tradition at Sewell-Thomas Stadium is to play the
Rednex song "
Cotton-Eyed Joe" during the after the 7th inning. Sewell-Thomas Stadium is nicknamed "The Joe" by Crimson Tide fans, in honor of
Baseball Hall of Fame member
Joe Sewell, who played
college baseball
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at Alabama. When Sewell played for Alabama, they were not in the Southeastern Conference. This means that only Frank Thomas, of Auburn, is the only SEC player to make the Baseball HOF. For 12 of the last 13 seasons Alabama has ranked in the top 10 nationally in attendance.
In 2016 the team moved into the newly renovated Sewell-Thomas Stadium, a $42 million renovation making The Joe look like a totally new ball park. Club rooms, a kids playground, all chairback seats, and a new state of the art scoreboard were added.
Head coaches
''Records are through the end of the 2022 season''
Year-by-year results
* Alabama won the SEC tournament which determined the overall SEC champion from 1977–87.
Alabama in the NCAA tournament
The
NCAA Division I baseball tournament
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started in 1947. The
format of the tournament has changed through the years. The Crimson Tide has played in 25 NCAA Tournaments, winning 7 NCAA Regional Championships. Alabama has five College World Series appearances and played in the national championship game in 1983 and 1997.
Player awards
National awards
*
Golden Spikes Award
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(1983)
*
Baseball America College Player of the Year Award
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Johnny Bench Award
:
Jeremy Brown
Jeremy Scott Brown (born October 25, 1979) is an American former professional baseball catcher with the Oakland Athletics.
Career
Brown played for Hueytown High School in Hueytown, Alabama, and went on to the University of Alabama, where he pl ...
(2002)
*
Baseball America Freshman of the Year Award
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Wade LeBlanc
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(2004)
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Collegiate Baseball Freshman Player of the Year Award
:
Wade LeBlanc
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(2004)
*
Senior CLASS Award
:
Emeel Salem (2007)
SEC awards
*
Player of the Year Award
:Kent Matthes (2009)
*
Freshman of the Year Award
:
Wade LeBlanc
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(2004)
Alabama's First Team All-Americans
Former players
Current MLB players
National College Baseball Hall of Fame inductees
In 2006, the
National College Baseball Hall of Fame
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opened in
Lubbock, Texas. Since then, Alabama has had 2 players inducted into the Hall of Fame.
Former Major Leaguers
Current roster
2017 Alabama Crimson Tide Baseball Roster
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See also
* 2019 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team
The 2019 Alabama Crimson Tide baseball team represented the University of Alabama in the 2019 NCAA Division I baseball season. The Crimson Tide played their home games at Sewell–Thomas Stadium. This season is the second under head coach Brad Bo ...
* List of NCAA Division I baseball programs
The following is a list of schools that participate in NCAA Division I baseball. In the 2022 season, 301 Division I schools competed. These teams compete to go to the 64-team Division I baseball tournament and then to Omaha, Nebraska, and Charle ...
* Alabama Crimson Tide
* Alabama Crimson Tide softball
References
External links
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