Many are hoping Birmingham native and former San Francisco Giant Willie Mays, widely recognized as baseball’s greatest living player, will return to his hometown next month for “MLB at Rickwood Field: ...

Howard Russell has tended yards in this quiet Fairfield neighborhood for about a quarter century, so he knows an explorer when he sees one. He stops the mower he’s pushing on this hellish-hot morning, ...

He was twenty when he began these voyagings, and he is supposed to have said then that this first trip around the league was like riding through a beautiful park and getting paid for it. Out of all ...