Major League Baseball laid exhaustive groundwork for the first-ever regular season game between two National League teams at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama to be a success. The former home to the Birmingham Black Barons and the site of the 1948 Negro League World Series proved a remarkable setting for a Thursday game between the San Francisco Giants and St. Louis Cardinals.
'People said to me today and I spoke on it: 'Do you think you're a better person, do you think you won, when you played here...' And I said, you know, I would never want to do it again. I walked into restaurants and they would point at me and say 'The n***** can't eat here.' I would go to a hotel and they would say 'The n***** can't stay here.
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