After spending time playing minor league baseball in the summer, Mays went on to play for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League in 1948. Since he was still a high school student ...

The historic site of Major League ... Negro Leagues in 1948 for the Birmingham Black Barons when he was 17 years old. The center fielder signed with the Giants in 1950 and went on to become a ...

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 ...

“Don’t feel sorry for the Black baseball ... the Negro Leagues. That includes Willie Mays, an Alabama native who began his professional career as a teenager with the Birmingham Black Barons ...

and for over 40 years it was the home of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues. The historic field saw many famous players in its decades-long heyday (Major League Baseball claims that ...

Negro League Museum President Bob ... Mays began his illustrious professional baseball career patrolling Center Field for the Birmingham Black Barons,” Kendrick said. So it will be a memorable ...

Major League Baseball will honor the Say Hey Kid at the oldest professional ballpark in America, where a teenaged Willie Mays once roamed the outfield for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro ...

A diverse mix of fans celebrated a tribute to the Negro Leagues and honored the passing of Willie Mays. On June 20, Major League Baseball ... for the Birmingham Black Barons.

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League ... Birmingham Black Barons in what would be the final Negro League World Series. According to MLB, 181 of the 351 members elected to the National ...

The Negro National League was founded in 1920 during a time of segregation in the United States. The league gained traction through the 1930s and '40s. In 1944, Jackie Robinson, who played for the ...

Watkins thought about Rickwood Field, the 114-year-old ballpark in his hometown Birmingham, Alabama, where Willie Mays got his start, and he called Major League Baseball ... Black Barons of the ...