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History fades away at Legion Field

By Wayne Drehs
ESPN.com

Thursday, November 4, 2004

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Up the rickety, pulsating elevator, down the wet cement concourse, behind an anonymous orange door, sits a story. It's the story of a stadium. Its birth. Its life. And pretty soon, its death. This is the seldom-used upstairs office of Walter Garrett, the 35-year stadium manager at 77-year-old Legion Field. The room overflows with programs, jerseys, helmets, hats, ticket stubs, posters, pennants, pins -- every imaginable memento from a place with a glorious football past. ...

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