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Bookmark or Share- Birmingham Black Barons - WikipediaThe Birmingham Black Barons were a Negro league baseball team that played from 1920 until 1960, including 18 seasons recognized as Major League by Major League Baseball. They shared their home field of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, with the white Birmingham Barons, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press.
- Birmingham Black Barons - BlackpastThe Birmingham Black Barons was a professional baseball team active in the Negro Leagues from 1920 to 1960. They played their home games at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. The team had its greatest success in the 1940s, winning three Negro National League pennants (1943, 1944, and 1949).
- Birmingham Black Barons | Barons - MiLB.comFor over 40 years, the Black Barons were "the jewel of Southern black baseball" and an integral part of the African-American community that developed in Birmingham in the wake of...
- Birmingham Black Barons Team History & Encyclopedia | Baseball ...Team Name: Birmingham Black Barons. Seasons: 19 (1923 to 1948) Record: 652-649, .501 W-L%. Playoff Appearances: 4. Pennants: 3. World Championships: 0.
- Birmingham Black Barons - Encyclopedia of AlabamaBirmingham Black Barons, 1946 From the 1920s to the 1940s, the Birmingham Black Barons were among the most successful baseball teams in the Negro Leagues, featuring such all-time greats as Leroy "Satchel" Paige, Lorenzo "Piper" Davis, and Willie Mays.
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