Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. This is the third in a series of articles about Rickwood Field and MLB’s Salute to the Negro Leagues, which was held from June ...

In 2024, the Negro League baseball statistics were officially added to the Major League Baseball records. Mississippi native ...

And, of course, Rickwood Field hosted “MLB’s Salute to the Negro Leagues” on June 20, 2024, where baseball paid tribute to 60 former Negro League players, and where the recently-deceased ...

By the 1950s, the Negro League, which had until that point been the main place for Black men to play professional baseball ... white men on the same playing field—literally.

In 2020, a century later, Negro Leagues were recognized with ... but the color line divided the field. In the face of adversity, black baseball players demonstrated a love for the game that ...

and he died two days before a game between the Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals to honor the Negro Leagues at Rickwood Field in Birmingham and where he and his father played. Baseball ...

Mays died on Tuesday, June 18, 2024. Will fearless joy, Mays changed America. May’s team, the San Francisco Giants, played the St. Louis Cardinals, on Thursday, June 20, at Rickwood Field in ...

Wood’s connection with Rickwood Field is well-established ... NPR called Road to Rickwood about the stadium, the Negro Leagues, baseball in Birmingham, and Black baseball today.