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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.
The game went to extra innings, the Grays scored four runs in the top of the 10th on three walks, two singles, and a double. The Black Barons brought in Sam Williams to relieve Greason, but it was too late. The Grays sent in Wilmer Fields to pitch the bottom of the 10th, and he shut down the Black Barons to secure the Series win. [9]
Next, a video of the late, great Willie Mays played on the video board. Then Mays' son, Michael, came out onto the field alongside Barry Bonds and Ken Griffey Jr. Mays, shouted to the Rickwood Field crowd, "Birmingham, I've been telling y'all if there's any way on earth my father could come down here, that he would," Mays said in a short speech ...
With few major league franchises in the South during those days, baseball fans in Alabama clung to minor league teams like the all-white Birmingham Barons, who played at Rickwood from 1910-1961 ...
Game 5 @ Birmingham, Alabama (September 19): Birmingham 1, Chicago 0 The Grays continued their success in 1943, having won the NNL pennant six of the past seven years. Candy Jim Taylor , a long-time manager for several Negro league teams, served as manager as Vic Harris had decided to take a secondary job that kept him part-time in the outfield.
A new documentary honoring and exploring the history of Rickwood, a field that once served as home to the Negro Leagues’ Birmingham Black Barons, will be the focus of a new documentary that ...
1943 – Washington Homestead Grays beat Birmingham Black Barons, 4 games to 3 games; 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
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.