Alex Box Stadium.

Originally a 2,500-seat facility, the concrete and steel grandstand of the original Alex Box Stadium was completed in 1938. Funding came from the Works Progress Administration, a federally sponsored agency which constructed public athletic facilities, among other such projects. In its first two years, the original Alex Box Stadium was the site of spring training for the New York Giants. Such legendary baseball figures as Mel Ott, Carl Hubbell, Bill Terry and Dick Bartell trained at “The Box.”

The University of Florida and Louisiana State University baseball programs have been at the top of college baseball in recent years. Pushing out players like Pete Alonso and Alex Bregman, the last couple of years have seen some of the greatest games between these two top tier programs. One of the most jaw dropping games came in the 2019 season when LSU defeated Florida by a whopping score of 13 to1 behind a freshman pitcher Cole Henry’s 12 strikeout performance. Henry’s 12 strikeouts were the most for an LSU pitcher in a conference game since outstanding pitcher Alex Lange fanned 13 batter against the University of Kentucky four years ago. The win for the LSU gave them their fourth SEC series win which propelled them to a berth in the college baseball playoffs. After the Gators scored 13 runs in the first of a three-game series, the Tigers outscored the Gators 33 to 6 the rest of the series.