My Old School

[Edgy MD]

What we're looking for is the top Met from each of these Alabama colleges and universities.

We'll get the easy ones out of the way first. The following schools, though they have produced at least one minor or major league player during their existence, have shamefully failed to produce a Met:

• Alabama Christian College
• Alabama State U.
• Athens State U.
• Auburn U. at Montgomery
• Birmingham Souther College
• Coastal Alabama Community College-Bay Minette
• Daniel Payne College
• Faulkner U.
• George C. Wallace State Community College
• Huntingdon College
• Jacksonville State U.
• Miles College
• Oakwood U.
• Samford University
• Spring Hill College
• St. Bernard College
• Stillman College
• Talladega College
• University of Alabama at Birmingham
• University of Alabama in Huntsville
• University of Mobile
• University of Montevallo

The following schools have honored the universe by producing Mets, and it's your job to name the greatest Met they produced, even if they only produced one. Where there is more than one, bWAR decides who qualifies as "greatest," but there really aren't any close races. Not in Alabama, anyhow.

• Alabama A&M: __________
• Auburn U.: __________
• Troy University: __________
• Tuskegee University: __________
• University of Alabama: __________
• University of North Alabama: __________
• University of South Alabama: __________
• University of West Alabama: __________
• Wallace Community College: __________

No, a player does not have to have a diploma to be considered a "product" of the school. Matriculation matters.

Yes, a player can count as a "product" of more than one institution.

[Benjamin Grimm]

I don't think I'm going to be good at this one. The only Mets I can think of from Alabama are Cleon Jones and Tommie Agee, and I'm not sure either of them went to college.

[Edgy MD]

You may have to guess.

And also please consider the notion that a player who isn't from Alabama might have (🤯) gone to school there.

Also, I bet you know at least two other Mets as being from Alabama.

[MFS62]

You may have to guess.

And also please consider the notion that a player who isn't from Alabama might have (🤯) gone to school there.

Also, I bet you know at least two other Mets as being from Alabama.

(off the top of my head) Frank Lary and Willie Mays
And Lary went to the U of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, which doesn't specifically appear on your list.
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[kcmets]

University of Alabama: Joe Willy White Shoes

[DocTee]

I want to say Terry Leach went to Auburn. Or maybe it was Terry Blocker.

[Edgy MD]

The great Willie Mays, of course, is from Fairfield, in the Greater Mobile area. He, however, was a pro with the Birmingham Black Barons before graduating high school, and spent what might have been his college years with the Giants as minor leaguer and then with the big team, as well as serving in Korea.

Frank Lary did indeed matriculate in The Yellowhammer State. He was a member of UofA team, playing for two years before going pro, but he was not our greatest Crimson Tidesman.

• Alabama A&M: __________
• Auburn U.: __________
• Troy University: __________
• Tuskegee University: __________
• University of Alabama: __________ (Frank Lary)
• University of North Alabama: __________
• University of South Alabama: __________
• University of West Alabama: __________
• Wallace Community College: __________

[Edgy MD]

University of Alabama: Joe Willy White Shoes

Joe Willie ate more dirt at Shea than most, but alas, not as a Met.

I want to say Terry Leach went to Auburn. Or maybe it was Terry Blocker.

THERE'S A WINNER!!

• Alabama A&M: __________
• Auburn U.: Terry Leach
• Troy University: __________
• Tuskegee University: __________
• University of Alabama: __________ (also, Frank Lary)
• University of North Alabama: __________
• University of South Alabama: __________
• University of West Alabama: __________
• Wallace Community College: __________

[MFS62]

Cedrick Landrum - North Alabama (NOT an oxymoron)
Later

[kcmets]

I have to ask, how the funk would you know a guy that had
like 20 PA as a Met went to some obscure school in Alabama?

[MFS62]

I have to ask, how the funk would you know a guy that had
like 20 PA as a Met went to some obscure school in Alabama?

Because when the Mets got him, I looked to see if he was related to Don Landrum, who I thought would be a good addition to those early Mets. So I looked him up at the time, and some things you just remember.*

And
Roy Lee Jackson went to Tuskegee University.
Later

* = but I don't remember what I had for breakfast.

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Auburn was Terry Leach

[MFS62]

And U of Alabama was Dave Magadan.
Later

[Johnny Lunchbucket]

Auburn was Terry Leach

oh shit i was pre-guessed. now i'm out of this competition

[Edgy MD]

Cedrick Landrum - North Alabama (NOT an oxymoron)
Later

"Hey, Man That's What I" Ced Landrum is correct.

Auburn was Terry Leach

And it still is!

Roy Lee Jackson went to Tuskegee University.

Just after The Commodores.

And U of Alabama was Dave Magadan.

He may have even batted leadoff.

Auburn was Terry Leach

oh shit i was pre-guessed. now i'm out of this competition

You're back in.

Also, if I find out anybody has cheated — and I have sources — things will get unhappy.

• Alabama A&M: __________
• Auburn U.: Terry Leach
• Troy University: __________
• Tuskegee University: Roy Lee Jackson
• University of Alabama: Dave Magadan (also, Frank Lary)
• University of North Alabama: Ced Landrum
• University of South Alabama: __________
• University of West Alabama: __________
• Wallace Community College: __________

[MFS62]

The most famous Mets Alabaman I can think of was Cleon Jones.
And since he was signed before many of the southern schools were integrated, I'll say he went to Alabama A&M.

Later

[Edgy MD]

The most famous Mets Alabaman I can think of was Cleon Jones.

Well, nobody's more famous than Willie Mays, but yeah, Cleon played one season of football with A&M, with varying reports having him scoring between 19 and 24 touchdowns.

When he told his coach he was leaving, the guy said he begged him to say with football, saying he was good enough for the NFL, but when Cleon told him he was transferring to Grambling to play baseball, his coach acknowledged that he was probably good enough for MLB also.

• Alabama A&M: Cleon Jones
• Auburn U.: Terry Leach
• Troy University: __________
• Tuskegee University: Roy Lee Jackson
• University of Alabama: Dave Magadan (also, Frank Lary)
• University of North Alabama: Ced Landrum
• University of South Alabama: __________
• University of West Alabama: __________
• Wallace Community College: __________

[MFS62]

After I typed that, I realized I should have modified it with something like "Home grown".
I remember stories saying that Mays, Agee and Cleon were from Alabama.

Later

[Edgy MD]

• Alabama A&M: Cleon Jones
• Auburn U.: Terry Leach
• Troy University: __________ (we're looking for a guy who was a Met from 1988–1992)
• Tuskegee University: Roy Lee Jackson
• University of Alabama: Dave Magadan (also, Frank Lary)
• University of North Alabama: Ced Landrum
• University of South Alabama: __________ (a Met from 1996–1997)
• University of West Alabama: __________ (a Met from 2004–2005)
• Wallace Community College: __________ (a Met from 1988–1992)

[MFS62]

IIRC, Lou Johnson went to one of the two Universities of Alabama, but I don't remember whether South or West.

That's all I got, y'all.

Later

[MFS62]

Yes, a player can count as a "product" of more than one institution.

Is there one player who went to the two we're missing? The 1988-1992 player?
I still don't have the foggiest, but maybe that will help somebody else.

Later

[Edgy MD]

I'm not sure who Lou Johnson is. If you mean Lou Thornton, he's not one of our guys.

[Fman99]

I feel like on any given day, the less time I spend thinking about the state Alabama the better

[MFS62]

I'm not sure who Lou Johnson is. If you mean Lou Thornton, he's not one of our guys.

OOPS. Lance Johnson. Still not sure which of the two.
Later

[Edgy MD]

Oops indeed, quiz cancelled.