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

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

“The Say Hey Kid” Willie Howard Mays Jr. (1931–2024) began his career in the Negro Leagues (1947) before joining the Major League’s New York Giants in 1951. Excepting time in military service ...

His first major league hit was a home run off me--and I'll never forgive myself. We might have gotten rid of Willie forever if I'd only struck him out." --By Warren Spahn (ed. note: Mays was 0-for ...

Baseball legend Willie Mays never expected to get 10 more career hits five decades after his last game. But that’s exactly what happened last week when Major League Baseball integrated Negro ...

“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 ...

The Golden Bears and five other HBCU baseball teams will take the diamond in a three-day event at Birmingham’s historic ballpark.

Considered by many the greatest player in baseball history, Willie Mays ... and San Francisco, Mays was looking forward to Thursday’s Rickwood Field game, the first major-league game scheduled ...