Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in 1948.

MAJOR RENOVATIONS UNDERWAY AT A FAIRFIELD BASEBALL PARK NAMED AFTER A LEGEND. FOR TOO LONG, WILLIE MAYS PARK HAS BEEN IN DISREPAIR. BUT NOW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND OTHERS ARE STEPPING UP TO GET IT ...

The 20-year-old has been a professional baseball player for three summers and still hasn’t batted off a pitcher younger than ...

The inaugural Willie Mays Open was Friday morning at the historic Rickwood Field, featuring six Historically Black Colleges and Universities ...

The Suffolk and the Riverhead Anti-Bias Task Force present the second installment of “Black History On Screen.” ...

Baseball and ... blessing” of Mays’ family, with the Golden Bears, under coach Milton Barney, hoping “to build off of the momentum of last year’s great Major League Baseball event at ...

“All of Major League Baseball is in mourning today,” Manfred said in a statement “Willie Mays took his all-around brilliance from the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League to ...

J.P. Hoornstra writes and edits Major League Baseball content ... Jones' ability in the field to that of Hall of Famer Willie Mays. Andruw Jones received 66.2% of the vote in his 8th year on ...

Other Negro Leagues renovations include Hamtramck Stadium near Detroit, at $2.6 million in 2022, and J.P. Small Memorial Park Stadium in Jacksonville, Florida, ongoing but thus far costing $9.7 ...

Year-by-year inductees to the Major League Baseball Hall of Fame ... VC: Chuck Klein, Tom Yawkey. 1979 — BBWAA: Willie Mays. VC: Warren Giles, Hack Wilson. 1978 — BBWAA: Eddie Mathews. VC: Addie Joss, ...