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Learn how Birmingham's Black Barons went from separate to spectacular
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Birmingham Black Barons
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Negro League Southern Museum - Encyclopedia of Alabama
The Birmingham Black Barons played professional baseball in Birmingham, Alabama in the Negro leagues from 1920 to 1960. They alternated home stands with the Birmingham Barons in Birmingham's Rickwood Field, usually drawing larger crowds and equal press. Drawing largely from a successful American Cast Iron Pipe Company Industrial League team, the Black Barons were organized in 1920 for the inaugural season of Rube Foster's Negro Southern League, which operated mainly as a minor league.
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Birmingham Black Barons Archive Legend Cap by American Needle
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Bill Greason's Journey From Negro Leagues Star to Alabama Pastor - The New York Times
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Bill Greason's Journey From Negro Leagues Star to Alabama Pastor - The New York Times
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Bittersweet Goodbye: The Black Barons, the Grays, and the 1948 Negro League World Series by Society for American Baseball Research - Ebook
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Baseball - Birmingham Black Barons
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Birmingham Black Barons Exhibit - Encyclopedia of Alabama
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Birmingham Black Barons - Encyclopedia of Alabama