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Allen Harvey Woodward
Allen Harvey "Rick" Woodward (1876–1950) was an American businessman and baseball team owner.
Woodward began serving as the general superintendent of the Woodward Iron Company in 1899. Following his father's death, he became the company's president in 1918. Woodward also served on the board of several other companies in the southern United States. During World War I, Woodward served on the Pig Iron, Iron Ore, and Lake Transportation subcommittee of the War Industries Board.
Following his college baseball career at the University of the South, Woodward managed the Woodward Iron Company's baseball team. In 1909, he bought the Birmingham Barons, a local minor-league team in Birmingham, Alabama. His first initiative as owner was the construction of Rickwood Field in 1910. It was the first stadium constructed from steel and concrete in the southern United States and the first of its kind constructed for a minor league team.
==Early life==
Woodward was born in Wheeling, West Virginia, on September 16, 1876 to Joseph Hersey Woodward and Martha Burt Metcalfe Woodward.〔 〕 In 1881, his father and uncle founded the Woodward Iron Company, based in Bessemer, Alabama. He attended the University of the South from 1892 to 1895, where he was a catcher for the school's baseball team.〔〔 His father made him leave the school when his grades began to fall due to his focus on baseball.〔 Woodward then attended the Massachusetts Institute of Technology from 1896 to 1899, where he earned a degree in mining engineering.〔〔 He also gained much business training by working with his father at the Woodward Iron Company.〔
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