JD Crowe: Rickwood Field charity game features former MLB pros, special needs players and ghosts
Rickwood baseball game allows former MLB players and local personalities to play alongside people with disabilities.
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What team played at Rickwood Field? Revisiting the Birmingham Black Barons from 1920 to 1960
The Barons were one and the Birmingham Black Barons — a Negro League team that produced a handful of Hall of Famers — were the other. Here's what to know about the Black Barons as the Giants ...
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‘Wild Child’ comes to Birmingham: Satchel Paige’s Black Barons debut almost ends in riot
The moment occurred on June 27, 1927, while Paige was pitching for the Birmingham Black Barons and was still honing his craft as a professional pitcher in his early 20s in the Negro National League.
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UAB Professor’s New Book Tells Story of Birmingham Negro League Team
University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) communication studies Professor Larry Powell, Ph.D., has published a new book, Black Barons of Birmingham, that tells the story of the professional Negro ...
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Baseball Loses Beloved Ambassador As Willie Mays Dies At Age 93
The Birmingham Black Barons were his first professional team. "All of Major League Baseball is in mourning today as we are gathered at the very ballpark where a career and a legacy like no other ...
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The Complicated History of the Globetrotters
Journalists and brothers Mark and Matthew Jacob’s book, Globetrotter: How Abe Saperstein Shook Up the World of Sports , isn’t ...
Alabama lawmen killed a Black woman during a search for whiskey. Her granddaughter is finally getting answers
Mary DeBardelaben made a promise she’d find out how her grandmother died at the hands of lawmen who raided her rural Alabama home in 1945. Now she’s finally learning the whole truth.
For 1st time in history, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House members serving together
The 2024 election and a court-ordered redistricting led to this result: next year, Alabama will have two Black U.S. House ...
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Finley. And there was the Birmingham Black Barons, the Negro League powerhouse whose ranks included at various times both Satchell Page and Willie Mays. From Factory to Field: The Dream of ...
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‘BHM 5 Food Drive’: Birmingham sports teams partner to help combat hunger in central Alabama
The Birmingham Stallions, Squadron, Legion, Barons, and Bulls are coming together for the BHM 5 Food Drive where people can ...
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Capital baseball legends, including Dusty Baker, give back to youth at game to honor Negro Leagues
This year’s game featured representations of the Indianapolis Clowns and Birmingham Black Barons as baseball fans and families voyaged to John Smith Field at Sacramento State to watch the young ...
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Man recalls his playing days
Birmingham Black Barons, Memphis Red Sox, Philadelphia Stars, Newark Eagles, Baltimore Elite Giants and the Pittsburgh-based Homestead Grays. The racial climate in baseball mirrored that of a ...