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Major League Baseball released a time-lapse video Friday that showed the transformation of Rickwood Field leading up to Thursday's game between the St. Louis Cardinals and San Francisco Giants.
The MLB announced last year that a game would take place at the legendary Negro League ballpark in Birmingham, Alabama, and starting in October 2023, a $5 million renovation project was put into action:
Per Riley Conlon of WVTM 13, MLB provided Rickwood Field with "expanded dugouts, a digital scoreboard, a new and padded outfield wall, a modern batter's eye in center field, netting along the foul lines, accessibility upgrades and more" to ensure it could accommodate a big-league baseball game.