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Category: Sports

Rickwood Classic an Ideal Time to See Legendary Field

From time to time our senior attorney wears a golf shirt which reads, “RICKWOOD America’s Oldest Baseball Park”. Our firm has long supported the preservation of this remarkable baseball field in Birmingham. Each of our lawyers saw his first professional game at this locale. One of our attorneys serves on the board of directors and frequently contributes to its preservation. Earlier this year, Josh Pahigian published the second edition of 101 Baseball Places to See Before You Strike Out. Th...

Visiting with Former Yankee Oscar Gamble

While having breakfast recently with our friend and former New York Yankees star Oscar Gamble, he mentioned that his first World Series was in 1976 while playing for the Yankees. Interestingly, that was also the first World Series DeLeal Wininger and his dad David Wininger attended. However, the lawyers attended as paying customers not starting for the Yankees. Our favorite team had experienced a long drought while absolutely dominating the game of baseball for the first 60 years of the centu...

Glynn West Memorabilia to Seed Rickwood Museum?

In December 2014, Redfield Auctions conducted an on-line auction of property having belonged to the late Glynn West. West was not a famous baseball player, manager, or memorabilia collector. They say he devoted his life to his family and baseball. Once the Oakland A’s offered him the exalted position of General Manager, but he turned it down because he did not want to uproot his family from Birmingham. He worked at Rickwood Field (America’s oldest baseball park) from 1947 until 1975, durin...

Wrigley Field and an International Story of Litigation with William Wrigley III

Bare with me as this story requires an introduction. Recently the ownership of the Chicago Cubs decided they would begin a $575 million renovation project of the famed Wrigley Field in Chicago. The renovation might well destroy two historic features of the park. First, the outfield bleachers might be demolished. They sit atop a vine-covered brick wall that would, on occasion, swallow up a ball hit into the tangle. Second, the renovations may block the views of adjacent rooftop businesses, wh...

Former Chief Justice Sonny Hornsby drops by The Wininger Law Firm to view Yankee memorabilia

Our 50-year friend Ernest C.(Sonny) Hornsby visited the office this week. Born and raised in Tallassee, AL, he and our senior member have been in court and in trial together on the same side of course. Gaining his undergraduate degree from Auburn, he attended law school at the University of Alabama. While he was at Auburn, they won their first national championship in football and while he was at Alabama, a new coach named Paul W. Bryant was hired. Alabama won the national championship in 196...

IS THE END NEAR FOR DEREK JETER?

It was March 1996. We were vaguely aware that a young skinny shortstop from Michigan was making his way through the minor league system and that he had come up for some games toward the end of 1995. The rumor was that new manager Joe Torre was going to give the kid a shot at becoming the starting shortstop (the most important infield position) for the NYY. He was Derek Jeter. During that month, Peggy Wininger asked him for an autograph on a couple of occasions and on the second such, there...

Talkin’ Baseball with a Confederate Yankee

David Wininger, our law firm's senior partner was recently interviewd by Dan Hickey who is a write for Bronxstripes.com(http://bronxpinstripes.com/beyond-baseball/talkin-baseball-with-a-confederate-yankee/.)   We are posting the interview here for all the other Confederate Yankees.  You may learn more about our firm and the mural by going to our website, www.winingerlaw.com, or facebook pages: www.facebook.com/YankeeMural  www.facebook.com/WLF1964.  Or by visting any of these links to see all...

New York Yankees Mural on Historic Wininger Law Firm Building

As many of you know, we have finally finished a several year project which is now prominently displayed on the South side of our building.  We are so pleased to be able to give back in some way after all Birmingham has given this family over the years.  You can find background information about the mural by going to www.winingerlaw.com/yankee-mural.  Fred Hunter from Fox 6 graced us with his presence and did a wonderful piece.  Mike Royer and NBC 13 also graced us with their presence and did ...

March Madness is New York Yankees Spring Training for the Wininger Law Firm

As many of you may know our founding partner David Wininger has, for at least the last 10 years, taken much of the month of March away from the busy practice of law and traveled to Central Florida where he and his wife Peggy have season tickets to all the Yankees Spring Training games.  This year was no exception as they left for Tampa during the first week of March and returned on the 31st. During their most recent trip they saw their team play around 22 games in 25 days, and as usual got t...

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