‘Rickwood Field: An Enduring Legacy’ aired on MLB Network Thursday
As part of the continuing leadup to the June 20 “MLB at Rickwood Field” game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants in Birmingham, actor/comedian Roy Wood Jr. and MLB Network’s Harold Reynolds got the chance to chat with some Negro Leagues veterans.
Wood, a Birmingham native, is also hosting the ongoing “Road to Rickwood” podcast. You can listen to Episode 2 below. Rutledge, who played for the Black Barons in 1962 and 1963, said he saw Mays play as a young man. And that wasn’t the only baseball legend who appeared at Rickwood in those days. Holt, a pitcher for the Black Barons during the same era Rutledge played, looks back fondly on that time in his life.Marbury played for the Clowns, who mixed baseball and showmanship in a similar fashion to basketball’s Harlem Globetrotters. Holt, who was a Black Barons ball boy as a youth before playing for the team, said Rickwood Field was “jam-packed” when the Clowns came to town.
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