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Will a Shuttered School Win a College World Series Title?

ESPN Daily

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4.63.9K Ratings

🗓️ 31 May 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

Birmingham Southern College sits on a lovely campus three miles from downtown Birmingham, Alabama. But today, that college is officially ceasing operations. Nonetheless, the school’s baseball team will play on, as they take the field this afternoon in the Division III college world series. So our Kyle Bonagura is here to explain how the school’s looming closure actually inspired the Panthers to turn their season around. And how the team’s final run may turn out to be its best ever. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Kyle, if your school's bookstore was selling every single thing out of the athletic department,

0:08.6

what would you choose to buy if you were a young college goer?

0:12.2

I think it's really about get as many hats as you can because I've learned that the hats

0:15.8

change over the years and you really want to get the ones that reflect whenever you were at school.

0:19.8

I think I would go for things that I was never going to wear in my actual

0:23.2

athletic career like I don't know shoulder pads or like a helmet that I've just was

0:27.1

never going to rock that's what they're doing at Birmingham Southern. The entire

0:30.6

bookstore is selling every single thing because they need the money that bad.

0:34.0

It's going to be such a collector's item to have Birmingham Southern shoulder pads 25 years from now.

0:38.0

Where, welcome you Z and will that have a specific spot for them?

0:42.0

I ask you this obviously because you're bringing us one of the more

0:44.0

compelling college baseball stories that have literally ever heard. It's centered on the Birmingham

0:48.6

Southern Panthers. What happened? Yeah so there a lot is the short answer.

0:53.1

This is a team that, a lot is the short answer.

1:00.4

This is a team that Division 3, College Baseball, not a whole lot of eyes on that.

1:04.8

That's changed over the last couple of weeks.

1:06.8

Last week in Ohio, they are playing in these regionals for a chance to

1:11.9

reach the D3 College World Series.

1:14.8

Then they get hit with the stomach bug.

1:16.6

It was the craziest they ever been through as a coach.

1:18.8

Two players hospitalized several others needing IVs mid-game.

1:22.6

A lot of those players were hooked up to IVs in the dugout

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