Giants and Cardinals to wear Negro League uniforms for MLB at Rickwood Field

next week San Francisco Giants And that St. Louis Cardinals will play their games at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, the oldest professional baseball stadium in the United States and former home of the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro Leagues.

The team will also be wearing throwback Negro League uniforms as part of the celebration.

The Black Barons played their Negro League home games at Rickwood Field from 1924 to 1960. One of the greatest players in baseball history, Willie Mays, began his professional career with the Black Barons in 1948. Mays played in Birmingham before embarking on his legendary MLB career. New York Giants 1951.

Rickwood Field was also the site of the final game of the Negro League World Series in October 1948, when Mays’ Black Barons lost all five games in a five-game series against the Homestead Grays.

On Tuesday, MLB announced that the Giants and Cardinals would wear retro jerseys at games in honor of the San Francisco Sea Lions and St. Louis Stars. While the Stars were members of the Negro Leagues, the Sea Lions played in the West Coast Negro Baseball League, which lasted for one season in 1946.

Prior to the MLB game at Rickwood Field, the legendary ballpark will host a special event featuring the Birmingham Barons and Chicago White Soxand Montgomery Biscuits. Tampa Bay RaysThe game will pay tribute to the Birmingham Black Barons, with both teams wearing retro uniforms.

The Barons pay tribute to the Black Barons, while the Biscuits pay tribute to the Montgomery Grey Sox.

If the Cardinals and Giants play, it will be the first MLB game to be played in Alabama.