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Alex Simon

Giants to play at Willie Mays’ former Negro Leagues home in 2024

It’s been 75 years since Willie Mays first played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Ala., for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.

Now, in one year, Mays’ big league team will take that same field for a game.

Major League Baseball announced on Tuesday that the Giants will take on the St. Louis Cardinals in a game at Rickwood Field, the oldest professional ballpark in the country, on Thursday, June 20, 2024, in game specifically set up as a tribute to “the Negro Leagues and its greatest living player” in Mays.

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