Saturday, April 2, 2022

1974, July 10th: California Sun 07 @ Birmingham Americans 11

Finally a game! Reading about the creation of the team is interesting, to be sure, but I was dying to get to some game action with this club. I don't know why it felt so long in coming compared to some of the other Birmingham-based franchises.

Coverage for this inaugural contest was pretty great across Alabama papers. The Selma Times-Journal won out mostly on the strength of the quality of that paper's scans. The first image is from the Birmingham Post-Herald. 





The following spotlight on defensive back Steve Williams came from the Montgomery Advertiser of the same day.



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