The Birmingham Barons have been a professional baseball presence in the city since 1885, with only three brief gaps of years they did not p...

Recently one of my Google Alerts coughed up an interesting article . The piece was a brief notice about the unmarked grave of John Lewis Dod...

As I continue my wanderings through the twists and turns of state history on this blog, I'm always alert for mentions of Alabama in the ...

I recently did a post on the town of Joppa , the hometown of major league baseball pitcher Jack Lively. He played for the Detroit Tigers in ...

The 1917 season was the seventh that the Barons played at Rickwood Field . This period was the "dead ball era" in professional...