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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]
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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]
Rickwood Field as placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Over the past year, MLB, along with the city of Birmingham, worked to renovate the 114-year-old ballpark in ...
Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home to baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, will host an MLB game ...
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 ...
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.
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