Hoover is a bad, bad place for Gamecocks baseball. Let's hope that changes this year.
Hoover, Alabama. Population: around 84,126. About a 15-minute drive from downtown Birmingham down I-65. A retired professional basketball player turned baseball player named Michael Jordan played at the Hoover Met - 121 games to be exact - with the minor-league Birmingham Barons in 1994 (Baseball didn't work out for him, by the way; he returned to basketball in 1995 while MLB was working out its labor issues).
Hoover, Alabama. Two words that send a shudder down the spines of every South Carolina Gamecocks baseball fan.