Giants to play at Willie Mays' former Negro Leagues home in 2024

Giants to play at Willie Mays' former Negro Leagues home in 2024 ... It's been 75 years since Willie Mays first played at Rickwood Field in ...

For Black baseball, game at Rickwood Field is tribute, reason for hope

Nostalgic matchup between Cardinals and Giants, two days after Willie Mays's death, caps a week of celebration of what was and what could be.

MLB set for Rickwood Field game honoring Negro Leagues, Willie ...

... today in Birmingham, Ala., with the S.F. Giants-St. Louis Cardinals play at Rickwood Field to honor the Negro Leagues and Willie Mays.

SF Giants legend Willie Mays won't be in Birmingham for Rickwood ...

SF Giants legend Willie Mays will follow the Negro Leagues tribute at Rickwood Field from the Bay Area.

Giants celebrate Willie Mays, pay tribute to Negro Leagues at ...

The jerseys all featured No. 8 on the back — the number that Willie Mays wore in 1948 when he was a 17-year-old playing in his first ...

Giants to Screen Commemorative Rickwood Field Game at Oracle ...

The game commemorating baseball's Negro Leagues that is being played Thursday at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, which Giants legend Willie Mays had ...

Celebrate African American Heritage | San Francisco Giants

In a symbolic celebration of the Negro Leagues, and its greatest living player - Willie Mays - the San Francisco Giants will face off against the St. Louis ...

SF Giants' game in Alabama will be a tribute to Willie Mays, Negro ...

Giants Hall of Famer Willie Mays, a onetime Birmingham Black Baron, is not expected to attend the game in his hometown, but the Negro Leagues ...

Will Willie Mays return home for MLB's tribute to Negro Leagues at ...

Many are hoping Birmingham native and former San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, widely recognized as baseball's greatest living player, ...

Willie Mays will not attend 2024 MLB Rickwood Field game

Given that Mays played for both the Black Barons (for 13 games in 1948, while he was still in high school) and the Giants (from 1951-72), it ...

Giants to play at Willie Mays' former Negro Leagues home in 2024 ...

It's been 75 years since Willie Mays first played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.

MLB to honor Negro Leagues, Willie Mays with 2024 Cardinals ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. -- Major League Baseball will host a 2024 regular season game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants at ...

Celebrate History with Willie Mays at Rickwood Field in Storylines ...

Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants on June 20, 2024. The game is a tribute to the Negro Leagues and one of baseball's best and most ...

MLB game at Rickwood Field a seminal moment in Negro League ...

... home to Birmingham Black Barons, who played in the Negro Leagues ... Negro Leagues, the only league that permitted Mays to play professionally.

M.L.B. Comes to Willie Mays's Hometown on a Mission of Love for ...

Major League Baseball went to Rickwood this week as a tribute to the history of the Negro leagues, a celebration that will now encompass a ...

Hall of Famer Willie Mays unable to attend Negro League tribute ...

Willie Mays will not be in attendance when the San Francisco Giants face the St. Louis Cardinals at Rickwood Field on Thursday in a game honoring him and the ...

Hall of Famer Willie Mays will not be in attendance for Negro ...

New York Giants' Willie Mays, takes a batting practice swing on June 24, 1954, in New York. Major League Baseball said Tuesday, May 28, 2024 ...

ST. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants to play special MLB ...

Rickwood Field, the former home of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, will be the site the contest between the St. Louis ...

In Birmingham, a Negro Leagues event becomes a Willie Mays ...

Major League Baseball planned to use this week — highlighted by Thursday's Cardinals-Giants game at 114-year-old Rickwood — to spotlight Black ...

Willie Mays to enjoy Giants' Rickwood game from home, not traveling

Giants great Willie Mays, shown in 2022, said he will not travel with the team when they play a Negro Leagues tribute game this week at his ...