Tag: MLB

• SouthernTrek 2025 – Built in 1910 Rickwood Field –  is the oldest existing baseball stadium in the United States,  as well as other sites in Birmingham, AL

  

  Young Jabriel Weir (left) is living history as the only African-American groundskeeper for an MLB stadium. Pictured next to him is one of his trusted assistants and do an amazing job to keep the venue impeccable. This is a short aerial footage of the site. These are a few images of the stadium In 2024…

  Fred Thomas, III

  March 5, 2025

  Aerial photography, Drones

  AG Gaston, Birimingham, Birmingham Black Barons, First baseball stadium, Jabriel Weir, MLB, Negro Leagues, Rickwood Field, San Francisco Giants, Southern Negro Leagues, St. Louis Cardinals, Willie Mays

• Guaranteed Rate Field – View from the Drone

  

  This is an aerial view (drone) of Guaranteed Rate Field, home of the Chicago White Sox. Their previous field – Comisky park was demolished to make room for the new stadium and is now a parking lot directly across the street.

  Fred Thomas, III

  July 3, 2024

  Aerial photography

  American Leauge, baseball stadiums, Comisky Park, Guaranteed Rate Field, MLB

• Kansas City Trek – The Negro Leagues Museum and other sites

  

  We made this trek needing to nail down a visit to the Negro League Baseball Museum so I could wrap up research for my Cuba trek, which ties the “Negro League presence in Cuba.” We call them treks because we are on very tight budgets so once we arrived we discarded the car rental and…

  Fred Thomas, III

  April 21, 2023

  Aerial photography, sights and scenes, Social issues

  42, dji drone, drone, Jackie Robinson, James Earl Jones, Kansas City Monarchs, MLB, Negro League Baseball Museum, NLBM, Sammie Haynes