| Another photo of Charles T. Laney |
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| Troy President in the early 1940’s: T. Grady O’Neill |
Shovel Hodge during his league president years |
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| Max Moseley was a sports reporter at the Montgomery Advertiser for the entire duration of the AFL |
Stuart X. Stephenson was a respected journalist for the Montgomery Advertiser. Stephenson also mediated the 1951 league negotiations over the Jack Clifton incident. Stephenson also did a stint as president of the Southeastern League. |
Reuben Herring wrote about the AFL for the Dothan Eagle |
| George Wallace tosses out the first pitch at Paterson Field in Montgomery |
Another shot of Stuart X. Stephenson | 1962 Montgomery Manager Johnny Groth, General Manager Ray Wilson, Danny Long and Rebel’s President, Ernest O’Connor |
| Art Decatur was president of the rival Georgia – Alabama League in the late forties. |
Happy Campbell, who briefly managed Troy in 1938, and was the manager at Troy in 1935, the final season of the Dixie Amateur League |
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| Joe Panaccione, owner of the Pensacola Senators in to 1960’s |
Left to Right: Dothan sports legend and team President, W. D. « Rip » Hewes, player-manager J.C. Dunn, and Dothan team Director O.B. Pittman |
Dothan Batboy Ernie Hudson |
George Grant, the first
president of the Alabama-Florida League, and a United States
Congressman, takes in the Montgomery Rebels opener in 1958.
Charles T. Laney followed
Grant as the second league president after the 1938 post-season
controversy which drove Grant from office.
Clarence « Shovel »
Hodge, one of the original AFL managers and league president
in the mid 1950’s.. Sitting next to Hodge is Joe Gerlach, secretary-treasurer
of the Fort Walton Beach Jets.
Billy Moore took over
as league president in 1959 after Sam Smith left to become the
Sally League president.
Selma legend,
Maurice Bloch, was the man who ran the Cloverleafs in Selma for
many years. Bloch was responsible for bringing and keeping baseball
in Selma and Bloch Park, Selma’s stadium, stands as a tribute
to his contributions.
When Selma joined the
AFL in the late fifties, these two men ran things: Earl
Goodwin, vice president, and Earl Ezzly, president.
and Rebels player personnel director, Ralph Snyder, right
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