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How Rickwood Field is significant to baseball history
Clinton Yates takes readers on a journey through the primary MLB game in Birmingham, Alabama, at Rickwood Field, the oldest skilled ballpark within the United States.
Andscape senior columnist Clinton Yates explains Rickwood Field’s importance to baseball ahead of Thursday’s game between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals, including the arrival of 17-year-old Willie Mays on stage at a game of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, and what the chroniclers of black baseball say Rickwood represents.
Check out Yates’ other Birmingham letters here:
Baseball legend Willie Mays is a ghost in Birmingham
Major League Baseball descends on Birmingham and Rickwood Field
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