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And tomorrow will bring the MLB at Rickwood Field baseball game, which is billed as a tribute to the Negro leagues. And and at the intersection of baseball, the Birmingham area and Rickwood Field is the giant shadow of baseball great Willie Mays -- who passed away yesterday.
It was hoped that Mays would be able to attend the ballgame and/or events surrounding it that also are paying tribute to negro-league baseball from the days of segregation, but it was announced just this week he would remain in San Francisco. He’s featured in pretty much every single compilation of all-time baseball highlights. You’ve probably seen what’s known as “The Catch” in Game 1 of the 1954 World Series, when Mays made a spectacular over-the-shoulder catch of a fly ball but was just getting started. Maybe more impressive than the actual catch was a falling-down spin-and-throw to keep runners on first and second.
Forty four churches sued the Alabama-West Florida Conference, which includes roughly the southern half of Alabama, but they were told by the Alabama Supreme Court that this decision falls under the church and not the court system.
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