Birmingham, Ala. (WIAT) — The Miles College Golden Bears will host the inaugural Willie Mays Open at historic Rickwood Field from Feb. 7- 9. Ryan Grubb officially announced as Alabama football ...

Willie Mays, arguably the greatest ... Negro Leagues for the Birmingham Black Barons. The Boston Red Sox and New York Yankees scouted Mays, but were reluctant to sign Black players.

Baseball and Willie Mays will intersect at Rickwood Field again when Miles College hosts its first Willie Mays Open on Feb. 7-9. Joining Miles in the field for the event are the baseball teams ...

RIGHT NOW. MAJOR RENOVATIONS UNDERWAY AT A FAIRFIELD BASEBALL PARK NAMED AFTER A LEGEND. FOR TOO LONG, WILLIE MAYS PARK HAS BEEN IN DISREPAIR. BUT NOW MAJOR LEAGUE BASEBALL AND OTHERS ARE STEPPING UP ...

One of the most successful players in Major League Baseball was born in Jefferson County.Willie Mays, "The Say Hey Kid," started his career with the Birmingham Black Barons at Rickwood Field in ...

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — The inaugural Willie Mays Open began Friday morning at the historic Rickwood Field, featuring six Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCU) baseball programs ...

The crack pipe looks like a toothpick in the ballplayer's mammoth hands. Who knows why Willie Mays Aikens started, but now he's hooked, sitting on the couch, gut jiggling out of his sweatpants ...

Alabama to Ann and Willie Howard Mays Sr., Mays played baseball with his father on an industrial-league team in Birmingham, according to MLB. By 15, he was already playing in the Negro Leagues for the ...

The Washington Huskies are set to hire former USC Trojans All-American safety and current assistant defensive backs coach Taylor Mays as its new safeties coach. Mays is the third member of the ...

Thurman, Mays and Rustin encouraged King to study Mahatma Gandhi and see the intellectual and spiritual power of the philosophy of nonviolence as a viable tool in the struggle for freedom ...

Former three-time All-American safety and NFL veteran Taylor Mays has joined the Washington football coaching staff as safeties coach, head coach Jedd Fisch announced today. Mays comes to Washington ...