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![Piece: Rickwood Field
Artist: Craig Barton
From 1920 to 1960, white baseball fans and black baseball fans alternated weekends at Birmingham, Ala.'s Rickwood Field, the Barons playing one Saturday and the Black Barons playing the next. Louvers shaded the stands and screened the view from the street. The Negro Leagues opened the world to young black players, including a 19-year-old Willie Mays, who briefly played for the Black Barons. "I'm not a big baseball fan," Barton says, "but I became one [while creating the piece]."](https://www.architectmagazine.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2009/tmp463e-2etmp-tcm20-142237.jpg?w=86)
