Rickwood
By Tim Whitt and Joe Mock Rickwood
How America’s Oldest Ballpark Forged Baseball’s Legends
Rickwood: How America’s Oldest Ballpark Forged Baseball’s Legends is Tim Whitt and Joe Mock’s history of Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama — the oldest professional ballpark in the country. It runs from Rick Woodward, who built it in 1910, through the players who came through it: Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean, Reggie Jackson.