Monday, April 27, 2015

The Secret to Success: Mitch Hill Turns Around AAMU Baseball Program

Birmingham, Alabama -- The SWAC basbeall tournament begins in mid May and for the first time, Alabama A&M feels like it has a chance. Third place in the east, but fresh off a double-header sweep of first place Alabama State. Meaningful baseball is a new concept to the Bulldogs who lost 41 games just three seasons ago.

“It was dead,” senior shortstop Julio Nunez said about the locker room atmosphere back then. “We were used to losing, losing was a habit.”

Mitch Hill took over the program in 2013 and none of his players knew what was coming next.

“That Fall when he first came he really wanted to show us he was the boss,” senior 2nd baseman Jordan Friend said before a game in Birmingham.

Hill started holding his players accountable to ...



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