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[17] [18] Later that year, Mays joined the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League, where he was known as "Buck". [18] The Black Barons were managed by Piper Davis, a teammate of Mays's father on the industrial team. [19]
Mays and his Black Barons fell to the Homestead Grays in five games. Built in 1910, Rickwood Field is the oldest baseball stadium in America. Willie Mays played mostly with the New York Giants and ...
On February 26, 2006, ESPN Classic broadcast a throwback game from Rickwood Field featuring amateur players in the uniforms of the Birmingham Black Barons and fictitious "Bristol Barnstormers". The style of play, the equipment and the umpires all reflected the 1940s game. Willie Mays and Charley Pride were both in attendance.
While visiting the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, a group of Willie Mays Scholars look at a display about the Negro League baseball team, Birmingham Black Barons, in Birmingham, Alabama, on ...
The hits came in 1948, when he was teenager with the Negro American League’s Birmingham Black Barons. “I was still in high school,” Mays recalled. “Our school did not have a baseball team.
Baseball legend Willie Mays died on Tues., June 18. He was 93. ... He began his baseball career in 1948 playing in the Negro American League with the Birmingham Black Barons when he was just 16 ...
The Black Barons won Game 3 with their young star Mays in hand, who aided the team with speed and the glove, and it was his groundball hit through the pitcher in the ninth inning, that helped drive the runner on second base home to win it for Birmingham.
By high school he was playing for the Birmingham Black Barons, and late in life would receive an additional 10 hits to his career total, 3,293, when Negro League statistics were recognized in 2024 by Major League Baseball. With Robinson breaking the major league’s color barrier in 1947, Mays’ ascension became inevitable.