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Rickwood 101: Everything to Know Before MLB’s Negro League Tribute Game
Sports Illustrated· 2 days agoIn the last hour of sweltering daylight and the promise of cooler evening air, in a place of...
With Willie Mays dead, is his godson, Barry Bonds, the greatest living baseball player?
Los Angeles Times· 10 hours agoBarry Bonds — who happens to be Mays’ godson — amassed the most exceptional batting statistics in...
With Willie Mays dead, is his godson, Barry Bonds, the greatest living baseball player?
LA Times via Yahoo Sports· 10 hours agoChoosing the greatest living baseball player now demands parameters. Barry Bonds, Roger Clemens and...
Negro Leagues Museum plans watch party for historic Rickwood Field game
KCTV 5 Kansas City· 14 hours agoThe oldest ballpark in America, which I still in use, is set to make history again with an MLB game...
At Rickwood Field, Willie Mays Is the Star of the Show, One More Time
New York Times· 4 hours agoEarlier this week, as Major League Baseball prepared for a tribute game in his hometown Birmingham,...
Willie Mays is the greatest baseball player who ever lived
Birmingham News· 2 days agoThere was little argument before Tuesday that Willie Mays was the greatest living player in baseball...
America's oldest ballpark: MLB game at Rickwood Field honors history of Black baseball
USA TODAY Sports via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoIt’s a staggering number: 182. When you consider the opposing teams in the minors, the barnstorming...
Let the record show that Major League Baseball now truly recognizes Negro leagues stars such as Josh...
The Boston Globe· 7 days agoUntil late last month, before recent years of number crunching, Ty Cobb topped the charts with his...
660 home runs, 12 Gold Gloves and ... eight MVPs?! How modern analytics would have added to Willie...
ESPN· 2 days agoMaybe the greatest baseball player of all time is Babe Ruth. Proponents of a more antiquated version...
How Rickwood Field was renovated for historic MLB game: 'We maintained the magic'
USA Today· 22 hours agoThe year was 1992, the 82nd anniversary of the opening of Rickwood Field. It had been five years...