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Rickwood Field
Birmingham, Alabama
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The oldest surviving professional ballpark in America, older than Fenway by two years. The Birmingham Barons and the Negro League Black Barons shared it on alternating weeks, Willie Mays played here at seventeen while still in high school.
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