Crimson Tide Football Legend Tony Nathan Talks Baseball At Negro Southern League Museum

By Solomon Crenshaw Jr.

The hot corner proved to be too hot for Tony Nathan.

The man who would become a legend on the football field also had baseball on his athletic resume at Woodlawn High School.

“That corner was hot,” he recalled with a laugh. “I got hit in the chest and the chin. I just had to stop it.”Nathan’s days on the diamond came up as the appeared at the Negro Southern League Museum Thursday night for the latest installment of “Pitch Talk,” a discussion program created by the museum to engage the community.

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