Alabama News Center — Birmingham Barons will never forget the ‘Season of Jordan’

Alabama News Center | July 10, 2024 @ 3:00 pm

By: Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

Bill Hardekopf remembers when his life and that of the Birmingham Barons franchise he led changed forever.

It was the day that the world learned that Michael Jordan was going to spend the summer playing Minor League Baseball.

“I’m not exaggerating here at all,” said Hardekopf, the former Barons general manager. “At 8:05, cars started streaming into the Hoover Met parking lot to come buy tickets. That parking lot stream, that stream into the parking lot never stopped until midnight that night.

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