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MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues was a Major League Baseball (MLB) specialty game played between the National League (NL) West's San Francisco Giants and the NL Central's St. Louis Cardinals on June 20, 2024.
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.
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.
Major League Baseball is staging a regular-season game at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on June 20.
On Thursday, the Giants and Cardinals will be taking Rickwood Field to play in the first non-exhibition MLB game at America’s oldest professional ballpark. The game is the teams' first matchup ...
With Rickwood Field game, MLB reconnects with a community that has too long been excluded. Jeff Jones. June 20, 2024 at 4:50 PM. ... Rickwood Field is situated in a populated, living, breathing ...
All Birmingham Barons games are televised live on MiLB.TV. [7] All games are also broadcast on radio on either WJQX 100.5 FM, WJOX-FM 94.5 FM or WJOX-AM 690 AM. [ 8 ] 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.
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 ...