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  2. Birmingham Black Barons - Wikipedia

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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.

  3. What will the Giants and Cardinals wear? - AOL

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    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.

  4. Rickwood Field, Willie Mays' first pro park and monument of ...

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    With few major league franchises in the South during those days, baseball fans in Alabama clung to minor league teams like the all-white Birmingham Barons, who played at Rickwood from 1910-1961 ...

  5. MLB at Rickwood Field - Wikipedia

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    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.

  6. Paterson watches as Birmingham’s Negro League field, Rickwood ...

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    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 ...

  7. William Sousa Bridgeforth - Wikipedia

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    A nearby restaurant provided good food to supplant the liquor. The Club also featured numbers runners and gambling, which was illegal and would eventually land Bridgeforth in hot water. In 1956, the US Court of Appeals heard a case against William Sousa Bridgeforth and other black Nashville club owners who had allowed "wagers" in their clubs.

  8. MLB is honoring the Negro Leagues with game at historic ...

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    Financed by millionaire Birmingham industrialist A.H. “Rick” Woodward, the park was christened with a game in 1910 between the Birmingham Barons and the Montgomery Climbers in front of an ...

  9. Birmingham Barons - Wikipedia

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    All Birmingham Barons games are televised live on MiLB.TV. [6] All games are also broadcast on radio on either WJQX 100.5 FM, WJOX-FM 94.5 FM or WJOX-AM 690 AM. [ 7 ] Birmingham Barons Hall-of-Fame broadcaster Curt Bloom is the broadcast commentator for both WERC and MiLB.TV and has been the voice of the Barons since 1992.