Morris: Allen University’s baseball crown deserves dusting

COLUMBIA, South Carolina  —  FIFTY-THREE YEARS WILL scramble the memory of almost any baseball player. Bloop singles of long ago become line drives to the gap today.

Members of the Allen University baseball team long since have forgotten most of the details from the 1960 season, their mental files gathering dust as they carried on with their lives over the past five decades.

One thing every member of that team remembers clearly, though, is that Allen won the 1960 Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference championship. A trophy that sits encased at the Adams Gymnatorium on the Allen campus proves that, even though a history of the SIAC lists Florida A&M as the champion. State Sen. Darrell Jackson plans to present a resolution on June 4 to the state Legislature recognizing Allen’s championship.

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