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	News \| TimesDaily.com \| TimesDaily \| Florence, Alabama (AL) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was built for the Birmingham Barons in 1910 by industrialist and team-owner Rick Woodward and has served as the home park for the Birmingham Barons and the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.
		Though the Barons have moved their home games to the suburbs, Rickwood Field has been preserved and is undergoing gradual restoration as a "working museum" where baseball's history can be experienced.
		In 1987 the Barons moved to a new facility, (Hoover Metropolitan Stadium) in the suburb of Hoover, Alabama.
	www.timesdaily.com /apps/pbcs.dll/section?category=NEWS&template=wiki&text=Rickwood_Field (1193 words)

	Birmingham Black Barons - Bhamwiki
		The Birmingham Black Barons played professional baseball for Birmingham in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1960 when the Major Leagues successfully integrated.
		They alternated home stands with the Birmingham Barons in West End's Rickwood Field, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press.
		Drawing largely from a successful ACIPCO Industrial League team, the Black Barons were organized in 1920 for the inaugural season of Rube Foster's Negro Southern League.
	www.bhamwiki.com /wiki/index.php?title=Birmingham_Black_Barons (413 words)

	Birmingham Baseball History (WBHM - NPR News and Classical Music)
		Whitt: "For many years in Birmingham, the game that was remembered the most took place in 1931, it was in the Dixie series, sort of a small World Series for the South.
		And the Barons had won in 1931, and the Texas team that won were the Houston Buffs.
		And the Black Barons, which at their height drew capacity crowds all over the Southeast, disappeared into a changing world.
	www.wbhm.org /News/2003/Birmingham_Baseball.html (1348 words)

	Birmingham Black Barons - Definition, explanation
		The Birmingham Black Barons was a professional baseball team based out of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama which played in the Negro Leagues.
		The Barons were organized in 1920 and entered into the Negro Southern League.
		From 1943 to 1948, the Barons would meet the Homestead Grays in three Negro League World Series, losing all three match-ups and setting the stage for a rivalry that lasted until the Homestead Grays folded in 1950.
	www.calsky.com /lexikon/en/txt/b/bi/birmingham_black_barons.php (315 words)

	Barons News - Inaugural Barons Hall of Fame Announced
		The Birmingham Barons are proud to make a special announcement as we induct the inaugural class of the Birmingham Barons Hall of Fame.
		The Barons played their first game at Rickwood Field on August 18, 1910, against the Montgomery Climbers in front of an estimated crowd of 10,000 people.
		Lorenzo “Piper” Davis: Davis played for the Birmingham Black Barons from 1942-50 and was considered the best player during the Black Barons reign as the premier team in the Negro American League.
	www.barons.com /nm/publish/barons279.shtml (467 words)

	Birmingham Black Barons - Negro Leagues
		The Black Barons formed the cornerstone of professional Negro baseball in the South for more than 30 years.
		Arising from Birmingham's active industrial leagues, in 1920 the club became a charter franchise in the Negro South League.
		The team's heyday came in the 1940s when, as members of the Negro American League, the Black Barons fielded exceptionally strong teams featuring such stars as Piper Davis, Lester Lockett, Artie Wilson and Ed Steele.
	www.nlbpa.com /birmingham_black_barons.html (151 words)

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		Rickwood Field, built in 1910 by Birmingham iron magnate A. (Rick) Woodward, is the oldest standing baseball park in the U.S. It formerly was home to the Birmingham Black Barons, for whom Birmingham natives Willie Mays and Satchel Paige played, and to Woodward's own team, the Birmingham Barons.
		Vulcan is an iron statue, cast in a Birmingham foundry from local ores, that represented the district at the Louisiana Purchase Exhibition in 1904.
		Situated on Kelly Ingram Park in the Birmingham Civil Rights District, the church was a focal point of the civil-rights struggle in the sixties and the site of a tragic bombing.
	www.nbm.org /blueprints/90s/fall93/page10/page10.htm (980 words)

	Barons News - Barons Announce 9th Annual Rickwood Classic
		On Thursday, June 17th at 12:30 PM the Barons will revisit this era and the Industrial Baseball Leagues as they take on the Huntsville Stars at historic Rickwood Field for the 9th Annual Rickwood Classic presented by State Farm Insurance.
		The Barons and Stars will don the uniforms of Industrial League teams that played in the 1930’s.
		The Industrial Leagues in Birmingham consisted of teams sponsored by local businesses and the rosters were made up of the workers from those companies.
	www.barons.com /nm/publish/barons150.shtml (498 words)

	SouthernLiving.com
		Leroy was working at a golf course and playing ball on weekends when he caught the attention of the Birmingham Black Barons.
		The informal quota system, a practice of discrimination that kept many qualified fl players out of the major leagues even after Jackie Robinson had broken the color barrier, is one of the ugly aspects of baseball history.
		In Birmingham, he was called to the ministry and was soon preaching one Sunday each month at the Sixteenth Street Baptist Church.
	www.southernliving.com /southern/printerfriendly/0,14260,1175377,00.html (1785 words)

	RICKWOOD FIELD FACTS AND INFORMATION (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Though the Barons have moved their home games to the suburbs, Rickwood Field has been preserved and is undergoing gradual restoration as a "working museum" where baseball's history can be experienced.
		In 1966 the lease was transferred to Charlie Finley, who brought the Oakland_Athletics AA farm team to Birmingham for the 1967 season.
		In 1987 the Barons moved to a new facility, (Hoover_Metropolitan_Stadium) in the suburb of Hoover,_Alabama.
	www.witwib.com /Rickwood_Field (1014 words)

	Negro League Baseball Teams Index
		For those who are just discovering the story of the Negro League baseball we have prepared a primer on this fascinating part of American sports and cultural history.
		From the 1880s to 1950 literally hundreds of all-fl, professional and semi-professional baseball teams played throughout the United States.
		While at times fl baseball at its top levels enjoyed the benefits of organized league structures, most teams played in loosely organized circuits or as independents.
	www.negroleaguebaseball.com /teams/teams_index.html/Birmingham_Black_Barons.html (180 words)

	Negro Leagues Baseball eMuseum: Personal Profiles: Willie Mays
		When manager Piper Davis penciled in his name on his lineup card as the left fielder and seventh-place batter for the Black Barons, the future superstar was a seventeen-year old high school student.
		At the time Willie began his professional career with the Black Barons, he was called "Buck" by his friends, and it was not until years later that he became the "Say Hey Kid." When he joined the team it was obvioous that he could run and throw, but Davis saw beyond the basic raw skills.
		In 1948, his first year with the Black Barons, he hit.262 with only 1 home run and 1 stolen base, but played well in the field during the regular season and in the ensuing Negro World Series in a losing cause.
	www.coe.ksu.edu /nlbemuseum/history/players/mays.html (1031 words)

	Baseball - Birmingham Black Barons
		Many consider the Birmingham Black Barons to be the most successful of the Southern Negro League baseball teams.
		The Black Barons became an official Negro National League team for the 1945 season.
		The Barons and Grays would not meet again until 1948, the year, which many claim to be the last real Negro League World Series.
	northbysouth.kenyon.edu /2000/baseball/BBB_intro.htm (709 words)

	Baseball in black-and-white: Segregated game to be re-enacted - Boston.com
		The game, which pits the Bristol Barnstormers of Connecticut against a team representing the old Birmingham Black Barons, will be shown live on ESPN Classic.
		Mays, who played for the Black Barons for three years before going on to the New York and San Francisco Giants, will be one of several former Black Barons at the game.
		Pride played for the Black Barons in the late 1950s before he became a popular country music singer.
	www.boston.com /sports/baseball/articles/2006/02/24/baseball_in_black_and_white_segregated_game_to_be_re_enacted (480 words)

	Who Was Piper Davis? (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		Birmingham, Alabama was bought, planned and built to be a new industrial center in the South, with its financial successes focused solely on its iron and steel industries.
		According to local lore the Black Barons were an ACIPCO team that defected to create a professional franchise in the years following World War I. In the prosperous 1920’s they’d been part of the Negro National League.
		While the Black Barons were winning the 1948 NAL pennant, the white Barons, led by slugging first baseman Walt Dropo, won the Dixie Series over Fort Worth.
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	Negro League Baseball Message Board
		Birmingham Black Barons, posted by Chris on 9/14/2004 10:47:09 PM My grandfather, Peter Cole, Jr., was a pitcher for the Birmingham Black Barons in the 1930's.
		Re: Birmingham Black Barons, posted by Wayne Stivers on 9/15/2004 12:11:19 AM Chris - There is no record of a Peter Cole playing in the Negro League.
		Birmingham did not have a team in the Negro League for five years in the 1930's and he may have played for Birmingham in one of those years in the 1930's that they did not compete in the Negro League.
	www.nlbpa.com /message_view.asp?imsg=751 (240 words)

	Teachers' Domain: Washington Booker, III (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		In Birmingham, one of the most segregated cities in the South, the promise of equality was still a long way off.
		He and his family lived in a rooming house with fl baseball players from the Black Barons, Birmingham's Negro League team; Booker was a batboy for the team.
		Like most fl children in Birmingham, Booker witnessed segregation in all facets of life: Blacks were not allowed to join white sports teams, they could not attend the same schools as whites or eat at the same restaurants, nor were they allowed to sit with whites in any public facility.
	www.teachersdomain.org /6-8/soc/ush/civil/booker (642 words)

	Piper Davis
		In 1944 the Black Barons repeated as NAL champions, but were again unable to overcome the Homestead Grays in the World Series.
		During the Black Baron's reign as the premier team of the Negro American League during the 1940s Davis was recognized as the team's leader and most impressive player.
		But, despite his impressive records posted as a player-coach, Davis' tenure as manager of the Black Barons was most highlighted by his signing a 16-year-old Willie Mays to a Black Barons contract.
	www.negroleaguebaseball.com /players/Davis.html (816 words)

	VINTAGE NEGRO LEAGUE BASEBALL GAME (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		The first fl professional team was the Cuban Giants in 1885, but the teams played as independent clubs until the first fl league was organized in 1920.
		It was during these years, that the Black Barons saw some of the team’s greatest players, the most notable being a lanky pitcher who called himself “Satchel.” Winning more than 2,000 games, Leroy (Satchel) Paige is widely considered among the greatest pitchers of all time.
		Playing from town to town the Black Barons were often greeted with enthusiasm, especially in the smaller towns, many of whom had never hosted a professional team.
	media.espn.com /MediaZone/PressKits/vintage_baseball.htm (1849 words)

	Barons News - Oldest Living Ballplayer to Appear at America's Oldest Ballpark for Rickwood Classic
		BIRMINGHAM, AL —The Birmingham Barons are honored to announce that former Birmingham Black Baron and Negro League star Ted “Double Duty” Radcliffe will be in attendance at the rescheduled Rickwood Classic on Wednesday, July 27th.
		The 10th Annual Rickwood Classic is presented by State Farm Insurance® and the Birmingham Barons and the Friends of Rickwood would like to thank our sponsor for their support as well as the Alabama Sports Hall Of Fame for their efforts in bringing Mr.
		For more information and credentials for the Rickwood Classic please contact Mike Hobson, Director of Media Relations for the Birmingham Barons, at (205) 988-3200 or at media@barons.com or for information on the reception contact Bill Miller with the Alabama Sports Hall Of Fame at (205) 323-6665.
	www.barons.com /nm/publish/barons329.shtml (373 words)

	Lp2 HOF League - Lp2 Wiki
		Kudos to the Barons for a great season and even better series." The Pilots jumped on Carl Hubbell HOF early, with 3 in the first, highlighted by a 2-run homerun by Ernie Lombardi HOF.
		The Barons then rallied in the bottom of the 2nd, putting up a 5 spot, led by a Willie Mays HOF 3 run jack.
		However, the Barons never gave up and in the bottom of the 9th, with one run across, Ozzie Smith HOF came to the plate with the tying run on 2nd and the winning run on first.
	lp2baseball.com /wiki/index.php/Lp2_HOF_League (516 words)

	A Black Eye on America
		In late August of the same year Satchel came back to Washington D.C. The Birmingham Black Barons had rented his arm for three innings for a tilt against the Homestead Grays.
		A white policeman beating a fl motorist is a shameful comment on the country we call the Land of the Free.
		But an environment where a fl cop does the same hopefully can be relegated to history.
	www.thediamondangle.com /marasco/negleg/blackeye.html (532 words)

	ULYSSES HOLLIMON - BIRMINGHAM BLACK BARONS
		There was no guilt on the faces of people when they told you to go elsewhere cause you could not eat at their restaurant or sleep in their hotel or that you have to sit in the section set aside for the fl folks.
		When we headed back to the base we got back on the same bus together and went back to the base and then, out of the sight of the general public we were once again intergrated.
		I can remember when we were in Daytona, me and Roger had gone to the fl section of town and the white players on the team called us to bring the station wagon so they could go to the beach.
	www.truebaseball.com /hd.htm (1192 words)

	Rickwood Field - America's Oldest Ballpark - in Birmingham, AL
		The 1983 Barons were the last Rickwood tenants to celebrate a championship when they won the Southern League in 1983.
		Since 1996 the Barons have returned to their roots for one afternoon contest a year, making Rickwood Field the oldest professional ballpark still in use today, a fact confirmed by the National Park Service in 1993.
		Glen West, who was the GM for the Birmingham A’s in 1975, told me that the seats in the right field stands came from the original Polo Grounds after it was torn down.
	www.baseballpilgrimages.com /rickwood.html (1542 words)

	BookPage Children's Review: The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues
		To watch our children playing together nowadays, it's difficult to conceive of a time when it was taboo for fls and whites to join in a game of baseball.
		The Journal of Biddy Owens is a fictional story of a 17-year-old African American who serves as batboy for the Birmingham Black Barons, one of the legendary teams in the defunct Negro Leagues.
		When World War II ended, fls faced the brunt of layoffs at work as those who had been in the service returned to reclaim their former jobs.
	www.bookpage.com /0105bp/children/journal_biddy_owens.html (399 words)

	My Name Is America: The Journal of Biddy Owens
		The unspoken rule banning fl players was finally broken when Jackie Robinson was hired to play with the Dodgers' farm club in 1945.
		To learn more about the Birmingham Black Barons go to http://www.negroleaguebaseball.com and click on "Team Profiles." Using the same web site, click on "Player Profiles." Look up Cool Papa Bell, one of the players Biddy mentions in his journal, and find out why Bell was known as the Fastest Man in Baseball.
		It was clear that all of the major league owners already knew the talents of the fl ballplayers that they had refused to let into their league.
	www.scholastic.com /dearamerica/parentteacher/guides/mynameis/biddy.htm (1822 words)

	Amazon.com: The Journal of Biddy Owens: The Negro Leagues, Birmingham, Alabama, 1948 (My Name is America): Books: ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-01)
		It was about a boy from Birmingham Alabama at the age of 17 he was playing on a Negro league team called the Black Barons.
		The Black Barons were a team that at the time played in the Negro Leagues.
		The conflict is that the Blacks have to play baseball in their own league and in some cities they go to they can't go into certain bathrooms, they can't go into certain stores, and they can't even drink out of certain water fountains.
	www.amazon.com /Journal-Biddy-Owens-Leagues-Birmingham/dp/0439095034 (2328 words)

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