Next year, the Giants will play on the same field where Willie Mays started his Hall of Fame career.
The San Francisco Giants will honor Willie Mays by taking the field in the same ballpark his storied career began.
The game — to be held on June 20, 2024, purposefully a day after Juneteenth — will both pay tribute to the Negro Leagues and celebrate Mays, who was born and raised less than 10 miles west of Birmingham. "I can’t believe it. I never thought I’d see in my lifetime a Major League Baseball game being played on the very field where I played baseball as a teenager,” Mays said in a release."It has been 75 years since I played for the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field, and to learn that my Giants and the Cardinals will play a game there and honor the legacy of the Negro Leagues and all those who came before them is really emotional for me.
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