This tattoo design often incorporates the iconic red and black colors of the Chicago ... playing in the minor leagues for the Birmingham Barons. Though his baseball career did not have the same ...

The Birmingham Barons made their return to the country's oldest professional ballpark as part of MiLB and MLB's Tribute to the Negro Leagues. Willie Mays, who grew up about 5 miles away from the ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. (WIAT) — The Southwestern Athletic Conference announced the 2025 SWAC Baseball Tournament is coming to Birmingham in May. The tournament will be hosted at Rickwood Field from ...

Born Oct. 28, 1935, as one of 14 children in his family, he was a batboy and concession worker for the Birmingham Black Barons in the 1940s and even pitched batting practice for the team on occasi ...

The University of Birmingham is offering scholarships for Indian students to celebrate its 125 Years of Excellence. These scholarships are available for postgraduate taught (PGT) Master's programs ...

Veale excelled at both basketball and baseball in his youth. Winfred Welch, who was the manager of the Birmingham Black Barons and the Harlem Globetrotters wanted Veale for his traveling ...

Stefan Baldauf, 64, and Philip Lawson, 63, were part of an organised crime group that planned to ship nearly half a tonne of ecstasy (Picture: NCA/SWNS) Two drug barons who tried to smuggle a ...

MLB legend Barry Bonds' former teammate A. J. Pierzynski claimed that the slugger deliberately timed breaking Willie Mays' home run record at home in San Francisco. In 2004, the San Francisco ...

As the home field for the Birmingham Black Barons, one of the flagship teams of Black baseball during the game’s segregated era, Rickwood was the site of Mays’ home games as a teenage ...