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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]
Thursday’s game will be the main event, but the celebration of the field, its history, and the imprint that baseball has made on Black communities over more than a century will last the week.
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, 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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Time heals wounds, and that is a good thing,” Willie Mays said of the game in a statement before he died Tuesday. With Rickwood Field game, MLB reconnects with a community that has too long been ...
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 ...
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.