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MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues was a Major League Baseball (MLB) specialty game played between the National League (NL) West's San Francisco Giants and the NL Central's St. Louis Cardinals on June 20, 2024.
Rickwood Field, located in Birmingham, Alabama, is the oldest existing professional baseball park in the United States. [7] [8] It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home park for the Birmingham Barons and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro leagues.
Rickwood Field as placed in the National Register of Historic Places in 1993. Over the past year, MLB, along with the city of Birmingham, worked to renovate the 114-year-old ballpark in ...
Major League Baseball is staging a regular-season game at historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals on June 20.
The listed years are those in which the league revised its schedule. For example, the National League (NL) scheduled 84 games during 1879, 1880, 1881, and 1882 – that is, four seasons from 1879, ending before 1883, the next listing. 1876 is listed here for convenience although the NL did not schedule games (see 1871 to 1876, below).
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 ...
Rickwood Field: Birmingham, Alabama: MLB at Rickwood Field: Fox [59] [60] August 18: New York Yankees: 2–3: Detroit Tigers: 2,532: Bowman Field: Williamsport, Pennsylvania: MLB Little League Classic: ESPN [61] 2025: August 2 [i] Atlanta Braves Cincinnati Reds Bristol Motor Speedway: Bristol, Tennessee: MLB Speedway Classic: Fox [62] August 17 ...
Giants legend and Hall of Famer Willie Mays first became a star at Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the country. Cardinals, Giants to play regular-season game at Birmingham's ...