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Due to construction at the MLB at Field of Dreams site, games in 2023 and 2024 were unable to happen. However, MLB decided to shift their marketing into a game to honor Willie Mays, the Negro Leagues, and Juneteenth. [2] The official name for the game was unveiled as MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues on August 4, 2023. [3]
On Thursday, the Giants and Cardinals will be taking Rickwood Field to play in the first non-exhibition MLB game at America’s oldest professional ballpark. The game is the teams' first matchup ...
Beginning with the Fort Bragg Game in 2016, MLB uses the term Specialty Games to refer to neutral-site games during the regular season in the U.S. and Canada. Other specialty games include the MLB Little League Classic, MLB in Omaha, MLB at Field of Dreams, MLB at Rickwood Field, and the MLB Speedway Classic. [1]
Jake Mintz and Jordan Shusterman recap all the events surrounding the Rickwood Field game between the Giants and Cardinals, as well as sit down with potential first-round draft pick Brody Brecht ...
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.
Rickwood Field, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest existing professional baseball park in the United States. [7] [8] It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home park for the Birmingham Barons and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro leagues.
With Rickwood Field game, MLB reconnects with a community that has too long been excluded. Jeff Jones. June 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM. ... Rickwood Field is situated in a populated, living, breathing ...
For Game 2, the series moved to Birmingham's Rickwood Field for a night game. Bob Thurman of the Grays faced Bill Powell of the Black Barons. Thurman pitched a complete game, but Powell was knocked out after 5 + 1 ⁄ 3 innings, and Jimmie Newberry finished the game for Birmingham.