Birmingham-Southern is going down swinging. On Friday, the liberal arts school is closing its doors for good while its baseball team continues its inspiring trip to the Division III World Series.
Birmingham -Southern players leave a practice Thursday, May 30, 2024, in Kirtland, Ohio. On Friday, the Panthers will continue an unexpected, uplifting season that has captured hearts across the country by playing in the Division III World Series on the same day the liberal arts college founded on the eve of the Civil War shuts its doors.
Nothing has slowed the Panthers, who have gone 19-4 since BSC’s closing was announced in March. Last week, they battled through a stomach virus that swept through the team and led to two players being hospitalized and several others receiving IVs behind the dugout during their win over Denison in the Super Regional.
The team is being shadowed by a documentary film crew, which has been chronicling every step of Birmingham-Southern’s wild ride and showed up in full force on Thursday. At one point, there seemed to be an equal number of boom mics as bats behind the backstop.“I did think it would be a little bit of a distraction, but it hasn’t distracted anybody,” second baseman Andrew Dutton said. “If anything it has given us fire and like heck yeah, let’s put our story out there.
Weisberg and his family have lived in a home on campus for years, and as he walked by the school’s library two weeks ago, he was shaken by the sight of three moving vans sitting behind the building.
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