Baseball
It's a simple fact. No other state in the South boasts as impressive a list of native baseball legends as Alabama does. Hank Aaron. Willie Mays. Satchel Paige. Don Sutton. Ozzie Smith. Willie McCovey. All legends of the game. All hailing from Alabama. In fact, there are 12 native Alabamians in the Baseball Hall of Fame, the most of any state in the Southeast.
So come see the birthplaces of some of the greatest players to ever play the game. Or come scout the state's next great baseball prospects, with minor league teams in Birmingham, Montgomery, Mobile and Huntsville. You can even visit Rickwood Field in Birmingham, the oldest baseball stadium in America, where every single thing from baseball's golden era is preserved – from the stadium right down to the uniforms. Simply put, if you love baseball, you'll love Alabama.
Alabama Salutes the Living Legends of Negro Leagues Baseball
 Nobody in the history of baseball has ever transformed America's favorite pastime sport more than the legends of the Negro Leagues Baseball. The Negro Leagues helped to shape the societal and economic complexity of the world by offering men of color sporting and other opportunities that were otherwise unavailable to them.
Today, 59 living legends, whose lives once crossed paths on segregated base lines more than five decades ago, have been brought together once again to be acknowledged for their cumulative contribution to professional baseball and their influence on the growth and development of this great nation. Among that number are some 19 men who hail from various cities around Alabama and are members of the Alabama Negro League Association. They are: James Sanders, James Ivory, Alonzo Perry Jr., Willie Lee, Henry Elmore, Oliver Ferguson, Earnest Harris, Walter Stokes, Robert Underwood, Harry Barnes and Archie Dropo Young, all of Birmingham; Leroy Miller of Leeds, Clifford DuBose and Raymond Haggins of Montevallo; Eugene Scruggs of Huntsville, Cleophus Brown of Pinson; Frank Evans of Montgomery; Carl Holden of Madison; and Beauregard Stephens of Bessemer.
For Living Legends of Negro Leagues Baseball trading cards and other information, visit www.legendsofthenegroleagues.com/home.php or for more information on the Alabama Negro League Association, call 205-491-6516.
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