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That broadcast will be televised Thursday on MLB Network at 2:30 p.m. ET, between "MLB Central" and "MLB Tonight" pregame shows live from Rickwood Field. Reynolds and Young will be on the call.
Major League Baseball is staging a regular-season game at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on June 20.
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 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.
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.
1944 – Washington Homestead Grays beat Birmingham Black Barons, 4 games to 1 game 1945 – Cleveland Buckeyes beat Washington Homestead Grays, 4 games to 0 games 1946 – Newark Eagles beat Kansas City Monarchs , 4 games to 3 games
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 NSL did not organize a schedule for the 1924, [2]: 3 1925 [2]: 3 or 1928 [2]: 5 seasons due to the Birmingham Black Barons and Memphis Red Sox participating in the Negro National League those years. The remaining NSL teams all played independent schedules those years.