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Rickwood Field: Field of Forgotten — And Renewed — Dreams

MLB is coming to Rickwood Field, long the home of the Negro Leagues, for a game that recalls an unjust past while offering promise for the future

Before the second game of a July Fourth doubleheader at Rickwood Field in 1948, the manager of the Birmingham Black Barons filled out a batting order with the name of a 17-year-old rising junior at Fairfield Industrial High School as his No. 7 hitter. That lineup card entry — &ldqu...

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