Rickwood Field, the oldest baseball park in America, Birmingham, Alabama. (Universal Images Group via Getty) This week, in Birmingham, Ala., baseball fans will gather for a game like no other.

Mother Nature must’ve had the players at Rickwood Field in mind when she stopped dumping buckets of rain into the steamy ...

Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown of Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball with a pitch.

Rickwood Field hosted Alabama's first integrated sports team, the minor league Birmingham Barons, in 1964 — 17 years after Robinson integrated the majors. And it has seen more than 50% of ...

The St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants will play a regular-season game at Alabama's Rickwood Field on June 20, 2024, MLB announced Tuesday.Rickwood Field is the oldest professional ...

Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home to baseball Hall of Famer Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, will host an MLB game between the ...

Barry Bonds, baseball’s all-time home run leader, was in too much pain to talk about his godfather. Still, he was in attendance, believing he needed to be at Rickwood to honor Mays and the Negro ...

NEW YORK (AP) — Major League Baseball will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 2024, between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis ...

Former uniforms of the Birmingham Barons baseball team and gloves are on display in a shop near Rickwood Field, Monday, June 10, 2024, in Birmingham, Ala. Rickwood Field, known as one of the ...