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Rickwood Field, Birmingham, Alabama
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The oldest professional ballpark in America, a 1910 grandstand in Birmingham, stood in for the segregated stadiums Jackie Robinson broke into the majors from. It has hosted more film baseball than almost any real park precisely because it never modernised. Major League Baseball played a tribute game on the same field in 2024, on the ground Willie Mays came up on.
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