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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.
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.
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 ...
On Tuesday, the Birmingham Barons (Double-A affiliate of the Chicago White Sox) will host the Montgomery Biscuits (the Tampa Bay Rays' Double-A affiliate) at 7 p.m. ET.
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.
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 ...
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.