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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.
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
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 ...
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.
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 ...
Birmingham Black Barons (1924–1925, 1927–1930) – Associate team 1931. Cleveland Browns (1924) Memphis Red Sox (1924–1925, 1927–1930) – Mid-season replacement in 1924 for Indianapolis ABCs. Cleveland Elites (1926) – Closely related to both Cleveland Hornets and Cleveland Tigers.
Major League Baseball is set to honor the late great Willie Mays during a game held Thursday night at a historic Negro League stadium where the "Say Hey Kid" began his professional baseball career.