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Major League Baseball is in Birmingham to honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues. With Mays’s death, the celebration at ancient Rickwood Field takes on new meaning.
Rickwood Field welcomes Major League Baseball to Birmingham
Now, the big leagues are coming to Birmingham. Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home to baseball Hall of Famer Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, will host an MLB game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants on Thursday.
Rickwood Field welcomes Major League Baseball to Birmingham
A place where horror was allowed to take a pause' The 10,800-seat stadium opened in 1910 during a time when baseball was the premier sport in Alabama. With few major league franchises in the South ...
Rickwood Field welcomes Major League Baseball to Birmingham
Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball with a pitch. "The Field ...
Rickwood Field welcomes MLB
Rickwood Field will host an MLB game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants on Thursday. It's the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home to baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.
Rickwood Field, monument of opportunity and oppression, welcomes MLB
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Rickwood Field welcomes Major League Baseball
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MLB pays tribute to Willie Mays ahead of Giants-Cardinals contest at historic Rickwood Field
In addition to Mays having a connection to Rickwood Field -- hosting an MLB game for the first time in ballpark history -- he also had strong ties to the Giants. Mays spent parts ...