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The Negro Southern League Museum, in collaboration with the City of Birmingham and the Center for Negro League Baseball ...
Layton Revel, founder of the Center for Negro League Baseball Research, unveiled a new exhibit Wednesday that seeks to preserve the legacy of baseball great Willie Mays.
With fearless joy, Mays changed America. Mays' team, the San Francisco Giants, played the St. Louis Cardinals, on Thursday, June 20, at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama.
It’s not the first thing you see when you walk into the Negro Southern League Museum, but once it captures your eye, it refuses to let go. It’s a life-sized poster of Willie Mays, which on a ...
We hear why some Vietnamese shrimpers are adjusting their livelihood from water to land. We also hear how the death of baseball legend Willie Mays impacted a Major League game in Birmingham, and ...
Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in 1948.
A Birmingham native who lives in Vestavia, Yother still speaks of its former resident with youthful reverence. “Around eight years old, Willie Mays was my favorite player,” he told me.
Mays, almost inarguably the greatest living Hall of Famer, was to be honored Thursday evening when Major League Baseball stages a Giants-St. Louis Cardinals game at Birmingham's Rickwood Field ...
The Birmingham, Ala., stadium was home to Willie Mays in his Negro leagues days. It will host a game between Mays’s Giants and the Cardinals in 2024. By David Waldstein ...
Willie Mays became an icon as soon as he returned to New York in 1954 after serving in the U.S. Army in 1952-53. He won NL MVP as a 23-year-old, and in Game 1 of that year’s World Series, he ...
The Birmingham, Ala., stadium was home to Willie Mays in his Negro leagues days. It will host a game between Mays’s Giants and the Cardinals in 2024. By David Waldstein ...