MikeBigg
Well-Known Member
This is really a positive for our universities. Props to both squads (especially Cador) for pulling this off. I commend him on allowing GSU to be the opponent for this inaugural event. When I see him at the Chicken Shack I'm going to buy his no talking azz lunch!:lmao:
SU, GSU to wear Negro League uniforms today
By SCOTT HOTARD
Special to The Advocate
Here's another reason to go watch Southern play archrival Grambling State in baseball.
When the teams face off in a two-day, four-game series this weekend, they'll be wearing Negro League uniforms. The uniforms arrived Friday, SU coach Roger Cador said, and will be worn in each of the four games.
"It's never been done in college baseball before," Cador said, "so this is a historical moment and a great opportunity for the community to come out and find out what it was like for these players in the '20s, '30s and '40s."
Whichever team performs better in the throwback threads may walk away from the series as the team to beat in the Southwestern Athletic Conference's West Division. Second-place Grambling (11-6, 5-3) is perennially the biggest threat to division-leading Southern (9-3, 5-1), the defending SWAC champion.
Seven-inning, double-header action begins at 1 p.m. today and again at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Jaguars finish up a six-game homestand with a two-game, non-conference series vs. Howard on Monday and Tuesday.
Cador said today's starters will be Eric Thomas (1-0, 6.97 ERA) in the first game and Corey Poret (2-0, 3.38) in the second. Jason Anderson (0-2, 12.79) and Joshua Kirk (1-0, 2.00) will each get a start Sunday, though Cador was unsure in which order.
"Historically they come to Baton Rouge and play extremely well," Cador said of the Tigers. "That's the thing that sticks in my mind. In Baton Rouge, it seems they're the home team the way they play."
Cador learned of the opportunity to wear the Negro League uniforms during an off-season discussion with Adventures In Sports production coordinator Steve Due, whose California-based company has supplied Southern with its standard uniforms for several years.
After AIS executive vice president Ron Rubenstein extended his approval, the project was a go.
"All Steve had to do was mention it to me," Rubenstein said. "I couldn't have thought of a better way to introduce the Negro League uniforms to college baseball than with Southern and Grambling."
Eighteen different teams, ranging from 1920-1955, will be represented by Southern and Grambling, who will wear their respective team caps to go with the uniforms. The value of the uniforms, as a set, "easily exceeds $20,000," Rubenstein said.
"They're letting us wear them, which is a privilege," said Cador, who will sport a Kansas City Monarchs uniform. "No other college gets to do that."
SU, GSU to wear Negro League uniforms today
By SCOTT HOTARD
Special to The Advocate
Here's another reason to go watch Southern play archrival Grambling State in baseball.
When the teams face off in a two-day, four-game series this weekend, they'll be wearing Negro League uniforms. The uniforms arrived Friday, SU coach Roger Cador said, and will be worn in each of the four games.
"It's never been done in college baseball before," Cador said, "so this is a historical moment and a great opportunity for the community to come out and find out what it was like for these players in the '20s, '30s and '40s."
Whichever team performs better in the throwback threads may walk away from the series as the team to beat in the Southwestern Athletic Conference's West Division. Second-place Grambling (11-6, 5-3) is perennially the biggest threat to division-leading Southern (9-3, 5-1), the defending SWAC champion.
Seven-inning, double-header action begins at 1 p.m. today and again at 1 p.m. Sunday. The Jaguars finish up a six-game homestand with a two-game, non-conference series vs. Howard on Monday and Tuesday.
Cador said today's starters will be Eric Thomas (1-0, 6.97 ERA) in the first game and Corey Poret (2-0, 3.38) in the second. Jason Anderson (0-2, 12.79) and Joshua Kirk (1-0, 2.00) will each get a start Sunday, though Cador was unsure in which order.
"Historically they come to Baton Rouge and play extremely well," Cador said of the Tigers. "That's the thing that sticks in my mind. In Baton Rouge, it seems they're the home team the way they play."
Cador learned of the opportunity to wear the Negro League uniforms during an off-season discussion with Adventures In Sports production coordinator Steve Due, whose California-based company has supplied Southern with its standard uniforms for several years.
After AIS executive vice president Ron Rubenstein extended his approval, the project was a go.
"All Steve had to do was mention it to me," Rubenstein said. "I couldn't have thought of a better way to introduce the Negro League uniforms to college baseball than with Southern and Grambling."
Eighteen different teams, ranging from 1920-1955, will be represented by Southern and Grambling, who will wear their respective team caps to go with the uniforms. The value of the uniforms, as a set, "easily exceeds $20,000," Rubenstein said.
"They're letting us wear them, which is a privilege," said Cador, who will sport a Kansas City Monarchs uniform. "No other college gets to do that."
