Earlier this week, as Major League Baseball prepared for a tribute game in his hometown Birmingham, Ala., Willie Mays said that age would keep him away but that he would be watching from afar. “Rickwood Field is where I played my first home game, and playing there was it — everything I wanted,” he said…
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News MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson remembers Willie Mays at historic Rickwood Field: ‘He was pure baseball’
MLB Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson sat on the Fox Sports panel at the historic Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on Thursday night in mourning, much like the rest of the baseball world is after the death of Willie Mays. Mays died peacefully on Tuesday afternoon at 93 years old, two days before this long-awaited…
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News MLB at Rickwood Field: What to know about Giants-Cardinals game at historic landmark
Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the United States, will be the host of an MLB game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants on Thursday night. The stadium, which opened in 1910, is located in Birmingham, Alabama, and is on the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. CLICK HERE FOR MORE…
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News Willie Mays, Birmingham and Rickwood Field: Baseball Honors a Legend in His Hometown
Among them is Charles Willis, 92, who still lives in his childhood home, a modest brick house in the Birmingham suburb of Fairfield, a few blocks from where Mays, his childhood friend, lived. They played together in high school, Willis in center field then and Mays at shortstop. Willis played at Rickwood, too, but just…
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