Jeremiah Bishop will be among the thousands of spectators and baseball fans converging on Rickwood Field this week during June 20′s rare, regular-season Major League Baseball game at the historic ...

MLB is honoring the Negro Leagues with a game between the Cardinals and Giants at legendary Rickwood Field. Here's everything you need to know about the history behind it. The San Francisco Giants and ...

Major League Baseball, and the sports world at large, lost an all-time great on Tuesday when Willie Mays passed away at the age of 93. Mays is on the short list of the greatest players in baseball ...

As part of Major League Baseball’s upcoming event at Rickwood Field, AL.com and The Birmingham News will be producing weekly stories that showcase the history of Rickwood Field, and history of ...

Birmingham, Alabama — Before Willie Mays electrified fans with the New York Giants and made "The Catch" in the 1954 World Series, he patrolled centerfield at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, as ...

Major League Baseball is in Birmingham to honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues. With Mays’s death, the celebration at ancient Rickwood Field takes on new meaning. By Tim Arango Photographs by Brandon ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dan Freedman is lawyer and IBWAA member who writes about baseball. It started with one man’s vision. Allen Harvey “Rick” Woodward, ...

At the beginning of the minor league season, Baseball America released its list of the 10 most talented rosters on Opening Day. The group was led, predictably and understandably, by No. 1 overall ...

As manager Guillermo Quiroz made the jump from High-A to Double-A going into the 2025 season, he was tasked with defending the Birmingham Barons' 2024 Southern League title. Some look at the Minor ...

The Birmingham Barons' six-game win streak came to an end Friday night with a 1-0 loss to the Chattanooga Lookouts. But it shouldn't damper their aspirations of a second straight Southern League ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — There is new leadership for the Birmingham Barons. The Barons announced Tuesday that John Cook is their ...