From the Negro Leagues to the Major Leagues to the Hall of Fame, legendary Alabama born players are well represented in baseball history from its post-reconstruction origins to all levels of present-day organized leagues.

Experience the state’s rich baseball history by exploring the history of the Montgomery Grey Sox as a founding member of the Negro Southern Leagues in 1920 and how Negro Leagues baseball in Alabama served as a proving ground for integration across the nation.

The captivating Fields of Change experience presents a history of how Historic Black Colleges and University baseball programs served as a pseudo minor league pipeline to the professional Negro Leagues and post integration major leagues, producing future Hall of Famers such as Larry Doby, Lou Brock and Andre Dawson.