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Willie Mays: The Greatest to Ever Play | Tributes | Roger Ebert
RogerEbert.com· 1 day agoOn the legendary ball player who changed the face of baseball.
Why Willie Mays, not Babe Ruth, was baseball’s greatest player
CNN via Yahoo Sports· 2 days agoMays was one of the players who helped integrate baseball in the 1950s, starting his career in 1951...
MLB at Rickwood Field: Baseball's latest jewel event was an opportunity to honor the past, celebrate...
Yahoo Sports via AOL· 3 days agoIt was all Mays wanted. Yet remarkably, it was also only the beginning. Three years later, Mays made...
America's oldest ballpark: MLB game at Rickwood Field honors history of Black baseball
USA Today· 5 days agoA name synonymous with Southern segregation was Eugene “Bull” Connor. The issue came to a head in...
Rickwood Field Road Trip Part 1
Major League Baseball· 4 days agoBirmingham’s Rickwood Field – the oldest professional baseball stadium in America, standing since 1910, and the former home...
Who were the St. Louis Stars? Remembering STL’s Negro League baseball team
KTVI via Yahoo Sports· 5 days agoThe St. Louis Cardinals will host the San Francisco Giants on Thursday evening at Birmingham,...
Group still raising funds to restore Satchel Paige KC home
WDAF via Yahoo News· 4 days agoSatchel Paige pitched for 20 years in the Negro Leagues, getting his start in Birmingham. Known for...
Baseball legend Willie Mays, the 'Say Hey Kid,' dies at 93
USA Today· 6 days agoMays, almost inarguably the greatest living Hall of Famer, was to be honored Thursday evening when...
John Breunig (opinion): RFK, Skakel and crows; Darien flubs Juneteenth; Willie Mays and Jackie ...
The News-Times· 1 day agoRFK, Skakel and the wild things: I haven’t worked with Kevin McCallum since he was a reporter at the Stamford Advocate 20 years ago, but on Thursday he sent me a provocative news tip consisting ...
In Birmingham, a Negro Leagues event becomes a Willie Mays celebration
Washington Post· 4 days agoRyan Howard had one more stop to make after he finished batting practice ahead of Wednesday’s...