MAJOR RENOVATIONS UNDERWAY AT A FAIRFIELD BASEBALL PARK NAMED AFTER A LEGEND. FOR TOO LONG, WILLIE MAYS PARK HAS BEEN IN DISREPAIR. BUT NOW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND OTHERS ARE STEPPING UP TO GET IT ...
Branch Rickey and Bill Veeck, recognizing the positive impact of baseball integration to the bottom line of baseball, were pioneers in signing stars like Jackie Robinson, Larry Doby, Don Newcombe, ...
The inaugural Willie Mays Open was Friday morning at the historic Rickwood Field, featuring six Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...
Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in 1948.
“All of Major League Baseball is in mourning today,” Manfred said in a statement “Willie Mays took his all-around brilliance from the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League to ...
With the A's set to make their debut in the Sacramento region soon, KCRA 3 decided to take a look back at the legacy of ...
The 20-year-old has been a professional baseball player for three summers and still hasn’t batted off a pitcher younger than ...
Spanning from Seattle to San Diego, the league featured legendary players such as Willie Mays, Babe Ruth and ... the St. Louis Cardinals, one of Major League Baseball's most iconic franchises.
(That pride was expressed in a video that Melvin requested from the club’s in-house production team: a montage of stirring ...
Andrew "Rube" Foster Launches What Became Known As The Negro Leagues In 1920 Rube Foster The Negro Leagues 1920 ...
Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...