Butch Hobson is beginning his third season as the Lancaster Barnstormers manager. Hobson began his pro career in 1973. The 2013 season is his 41st year in pro baseball. Each week, he sits down with ...

Hobson was born Nov. 28, 1930, in Tuscaloosa, attended local schools and earned football and baseball scholarships to UA. During the Crimson Tide’s second appearance in the Orange Bowl in 1953, he led ...

Clell Hobson Sr., a football and baseball standout at Alabama in the early 1950s and the father of Butch Hobson, died Thursday. He was 93. Born Nov. 28, 1930, in Tuscaloosa, Hobson played for the ...

Butch Hobson walks into a batting cage, holding a bag of baseballs, and arranges a tee. "You ready, hotshot?" he asks a young boy who steps into the batter's box. Standing in the cage behind the left ...

Regarding the July 8 Sports article "Trying to Make Contact; Hobson Hopeful of Another Big League Call-Up": My family is host to the former major leaguers Butch Hobson and Andy Etchebarren for the ...

As disciples of former Boston Red Sox player and manager Butch Hobson, Patrick Osborn and Lance Burkhart are cut from the same baseball cloth in many ways. Osborn, 32, became the second manager of the ...

That and getting drafted out of Florida are the two best days of my baseball career."<P> Many may have expected Owens to be the player from the Blue Crabs clubhouse to replace Hobson as the team's ...

NASHUA – It was the fall of 1999, and two entities in need of a rejuvenation were about to be on a collision course to join forces. There was the Nashua Pride, the independent Atlantic League ...