Editing Montgomery, Alabama (section)

===Sports===
Montgomery is home of the [[Montgomery Biscuits]] baseball team. The Biscuits play in the [[Double-A (baseball)|Class AA]] [[Southern League (1964–2020)|Southern League]]. They are affiliated with the [[Tampa Bay Rays]], and play at [[Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium]]. Riverwalk Stadium hosted the [[NCAA Division II]] National Baseball Championship from 2004 until 2007. The championship had previously been played at [[Paterson Field]] in Montgomery from 1985 until 2003.<ref name="D2 Baseball">{{citation |url=https://www.ncaa.org/library/records/baseball/baseball_records_book/2008/2008_baseball_records.pdf |title=Official 2008 NCAA Baseball Records Book |publisher=[[National Collegiate Athletic Association]] |date=January 2008 |page=224 |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080716221146/http://www.ncaa.org/library/records/baseball/baseball_records_book/2008/2008_baseball_records.pdf <!-- Bot retrieved archive --> |archive-date=July 16, 2008}}</ref> Riverwalk Stadium has also been host to two Southern League All-Star games in 2006 and 2015.

[[File:Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium.jpg|thumb|right|The [[Montgomery Biscuits]] play in [[Montgomery Riverwalk Stadium|Riverwalk Stadium]]]]
The [[Yokohama Tire LPGA Classic]] women's golf event is held at the [[Robert Trent Jones Golf Trail]] at Capitol Hill in nearby [[Prattville, Alabama|Prattville]].<ref name="LPGA">{{citation |title=LPGA.com |url=http://lpga.com/tournament_microsite.aspx?id=13688 |access-date=September 2, 2008 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080502005543/http://www.lpga.com/tournament_microsite.aspx?id=13688 |archive-date=May 2, 2008}}</ref> [[Garrett Coliseum]] was the home of the now-defunct [[Montgomery Bears]] [[Indoor American football|indoor football]] team.

Montgomery is also the site of sporting events hosted by the area's colleges and universities. The [[Alabama State University]] Hornets play in [[NCAA Division I]] competition in the [[Southwestern Athletic Conference]] (SWAC). The [[American football|football]] team plays at Hornet Stadium, the basketball teams play at the Dunn-Oliver Acadome, and the baseball team plays at the ASU Baseball Complex, which opened in 2010. [[Auburn University at Montgomery]] (AUM) fields teams in [[NCAA Division II]] competition. [[Huntingdon College]] participates at the NCAA Division III level and [[Faulkner University]] is a member of the NAIA and is a nearby rival of AUM. The [[Blue–Gray Football Classic]] was an annual college football [[all-star game]] held from 1938 until 2001.<ref name="Blue-Gray">{{citation |url=http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/bowl_results.php?bowlid=35 |title=Blue-Gray All-Star Classic Games |publisher=College Football Data Warehouse |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090223211614/http://cfbdatawarehouse.com/data/bowls/bowl_results.php?bowlid=35 |archive-date=February 23, 2009 |url-status=live}}</ref> In 2009, the city played host to the first annual Historical Black College and University (HBCU) All-Star Football Bowl played at Cramton Bowl. Montgomery has also hosted to the [[Southern Intercollegiate Athletic Conference]] (SIAC) football championship and  the [[Camellia Bowl (2014–present)|Camellia Bowl]].<ref name=ESPNNewCB>{{cite news |last=McMurphy |first=Brett |title=Bowl created for MAC, Sun Belt |publisher=ESPN |url=https://www.espn.com/college-football/story/_/id/9581531/espn-creates-bowl-mac-sun-belt-teams |access-date=August 20, 2013 |date=August 19, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130820215706/http://espn.go.com/college-football/story/_/id/9581531/espn-creates-bowl-mac-sun-belt-teams |archive-date=August 20, 2013 |url-status=live}}</ref> Montgomery annually hosts the Max Capital City Classic inside Riverwalk Stadium which is a baseball game between rivals [[Auburn University]] and the [[University of Alabama]].

Several successful professional athletes hail from Montgomery, including [[Pro Football Hall of Fame]]r [[Bart Starr]]<ref name="Bart Starr">{{citation |url=http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?PLAYER_ID=200 |title=Bart Starr |publisher=[[Pro Football Hall of Fame]] |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071211165107/http://www.profootballhof.com/hof/member.jsp?player_id=200 |archive-date=December 11, 2007 |url-status=live}}</ref> and [[Athletics at the 1984 Summer Olympics|two-time Olympic gold medalist]] in track and field [[Alonzo Babers]].<ref name="Alonzo Babers">{{citation |url=https://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/alonzo-babers-1.html |title=Alonzo Babers Biography and Statistics |publisher=Sports-Reference.com |access-date=September 2, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090221084426/http://www.sports-reference.com/olympics/athletes/ba/alonzo-babers-1.html |archive-date=February 21, 2009 |url-status=dead}}</ref>