Reggie Jackson reminds us that MLB’s Rickwood Field game isn’t a kumbaya moment — Andscape

Clinton Yates takes readers inside all things around MLB’s first game in Birmingham, Alabama, at Rickwood Field — the oldest professional ballpark in the United States.

BIRMINGHAM, Ala. — By the time the game finally came around, it seemed like baseball was the last thing on anyone’s mind. An intensely emotional week in the seat of Jefferson County, Alabama, concluded with a reasonably average ballgame in terms of actual balls, strikes, hits and runs, but there’s no doubt about it that every player who suited up for this matchup — along . . .