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in the Negro League World Series, when Mays was only 17, a raw .262 hitter on the Birmingham Black Barons. But by then the night shades were falling fast on Negro baseball. Once Jackie Robinson ...
It was hours before Rickwood Field hosted its first Major League Baseball game between ... The original clubhouse of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, where Mays got his pro ...
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WBRC) - The Birmingham Barons are returning to Rickwood ... Field will host a game that honors the Negro ...
Harold (Buster) Hair, a Jacksonville sports pioneer who competed in baseball's Negro Leagues ... the Birmingham Black Barons and the Kansas City Monarchs, recording a league batting title in ...