It’s a big day today for baseball fans in Birmingham as the Southern League All-Star Home Run Derby comes to Rickwood Field.

There is also a celebrity softball tournament that starts just after 3 p.m. Our very own James Spann will be playing in that game.

Then the very best sluggers across the Southern League, including Birmingham’s Stefan Gartrell and David Cook will square off in the exciting annual home run contest this afternoon at 5 p.m.

Six Barons will be on the Southern Division roster in the 2009 Southern League All Star game at 7 p.m. Monday night at Regions Park.

Catch some of the best baseball in the country today and tomorrow right in your own backyard!

The weather looks like it will hold up nicely this afternoon. Subsidence or sinking air behind the tail of the disturbance passing through Northeast Alabama right now may help suppress storms this afternoon in the I-59 corridor. Additional storms could develop this afternoon, but they should be scattered at best. We will be watching storms over Missouri that should turn southeastward and plague us overnight. But we could use the rain.

There could be a few scattered storms tomorrow afternoon in the wake of the overnight storm complex, but it looks like the evening activities at Regions Park should be just fine Monday night.