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The Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960, including 18 seasons recognized as Major League by Major League Baseball. [1] They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama , with the white Birmingham Barons , usually drawing larger crowds and equal press.
Mays, an Alabama native, played with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field as a 17-year-old in 1948 before he went on to play the majority of his MLB career with the Giants.
The game was played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, the former home of the Negro leagues' Birmingham Black Barons, one day after Juneteenth. This was the first regular-season Major League Baseball (MLB) game played in the state of Alabama. The Cardinals won 6–5.
Birmingham, Alabama's Rickwood Field will be a central character when MLB honors the Negro Leagues and the legendary Mays, who died June 18 at age 93, with a nationally televised game that also ...
In 1927, first-half champion Chicago met against second-half champion Birmingham Black Barons. [21] 1927 Negro National League Championship Series: Chicago American Giants vs. Birmingham Black Barons (Chicago wins series 4–1) September 19, 1927 at Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama: Chicago 5, Birmingham 0
In marketing Thursday’s game, MLB has noted that the Birmingham Black Barons played at Rickwood from 1924 through 1960 and said that the field was the site of the final Negro League World Series ...
The Black Barons won the first three games by one run each, but Kansas City responded with wins in Game 4, 6, and 7; the fifth game had ended prematurely in the fifth inning in a 3–3 tie. The eighth and deciding game ended with the Black Barons winning 5–1 to clinch the championship.
The Negro Leagues played its first East-West All-Star Game on Sept. 10, 1933, at Comiskey Park in Chicago, and the last one was held in 1962, before the league shuttered.