Alabama NewsCenter — Alabama’s Rickwood Field, a monument to the love of baseball

Alabama News Center | July 12, 2023 @ 10:00 am

By: Jackson Roberts

Coming in 2024: Rickwood to play host to Major League Baseball

The love for baseball is evident if you look past the non-padded outfield walls of Birmingham’s Rickwood Field and happen to see Ron Jackson mowing grass and picking up trash.

On this blistering afternoon, Jackson is riding his personal tractor right outside Rickwood – tending land for a practice field he dreams of making.

Jackson might introduce himself as a World Series Champion coach and longtime Major League Baseball player; the Los Angeles Angels drafted him out of Lawson State Community College in the second round of the 1971 draft.

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