Rickwood Field is the oldest professional baseball park in the USA. It opened in 1910, two years before Fenway and four years before Wrigley. When Comiskey Park was demolished in 1991, Rickwood ...

Rickwood Field, baseball's oldest ballpark, gets a well-deserved tribute in 2025 Topps Series 1 Baseball, featuring game used relics from the 2024 MLB at Rickwood game.

Rickwood Field hosted Alabama’s first integrated sports team, the minor league Birmingham Barons, in 1964 — 17 years after Robinson integrated the majors. And it has seen more than 50% of ...

Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the U.S. and former home to baseball Hall of Famer Mays and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues, will host an MLB game between the ...

Rickwood Field was home of the Birmingham Black Barons from 1924 to 1960. It was also the Spring Training home for the Philadelphia Phillies in 1911 and 1920 and the Pittsburgh Pirates in 1919.

The Rocket City Trash Pandas took to historic Rickwood Field Wednesday for the first time in franchise history, giving players and fans a taste of America's oldest baseball park.

Rickwood Field is situated in a populated, living, breathing Birmingham neighborhood, and to some degree, the arrival of the traveling circus which accompanies a jewel event such as this is a ...

NEW YORK – Major League Baseball will stage a Negro Leagues tribute game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, on June 20, 2024, between the San Francisco Giants and the St. Louis Cardinals.

• The MLB at Rickwood Field game begins at 6:15 p.m. on Fox, though tickets have long since sold out. MLB has set aside around 26% of the 8,300 tickets for use at no cost by community and youth ...

One hundred years ago today --- Aug. 18, 1910 --- baseball fans got their first look at Birmingham industrialist A.H. "Rick" Woodward's stately, concrete-and-steel baseball gem he named Rickwood ...

Column: Let's make sure we don't lose Birmingham's Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in America but in need of major repairs as it approaches its 107 birthday.

My visit to 114-year-old Rickwood Field felt like a flashback to the Golden Age when competition was gritty, players were larger than life and, even with its flaws, baseball was truly America’s ...