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Rickwood 101: Everything to Know Before MLB’s Negro League Tribute Game
Sports Illustrated· 7 hours agoIn the last hour of sweltering daylight and the promise of cooler evening air, in a place of...
660 home runs, 12 Gold Gloves and ... eight MVPs?! How modern analytics would have added to Willie...
ESPN· 13 hours agoMaybe the greatest baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth. Proponents of a more antiquated version...
America's oldest ballpark: MLB game at Rickwood Field honors history of Black baseball
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 15 hours agoIt’s a staggering number: 182. When you consider the opposing teams in the minors, the barnstorming...
Boston Red Sox' All-Star Hopeful Joins Ty Cobb and Shoeless Joe Jackson in Rare History
Sports Illustrated· 4 days agoThe loss dropped the Red Sox to 35-35 on the year through 70 games. The Yankees became the first...
The greatest players to play at Rickwood Field included the Say Hey Kid, Hammer, Mr. Cub
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 6 hours agoMany of the players on that team became key parts of the A's 1972-74 World Series threepeat,...
MLB’s tribute to Negro leagues with game at Rickwood Field will have a somber undertone in wake of...
The Boston Globe· 8 hours agoNow, the big leagues are coming to Birmingham. Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in...
Willie Mays is the greatest baseball player who ever lived
Birmingham News· 23 hours agoThere was little argument before Tuesday that Willie Mays was the greatest living player in baseball...
Willie Mays, Hall of Fame Major League Baseball legend, has died
Los Angeles Times· 24 hours agoIt was the first game of the 1954 World Series between the Cleveland Indians and New York Giants in...
Perspective | Willie Mays was as good — and as cool — as anyone who ever played
Washington Post· 7 hours agoThe first time I met Willie Mays and shook the hand of the greatest baseball player I’ve ever seen,...
Willie Mays: An incomparable career by the numbers
Fox Sports· 17 hours agoThe story of baseball cannot be told without the incredible career of Willie Mays, who compiled numbers never seen before and some that will never be...