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Locked out of its stadium, UCLA baseball practices at Birmingham High

With Jackie Robinson Stadium, its home baseball field, locked up under order of a federal judge because of an ongoing legal dispute over land for veterans housing, UCLA coach John Savage has his team on a traveling caravan.

On Thursday and Friday, they will be practicing at Birmingham High School. On Sunday, it will be Harvard-Westlake’s O’Malley Field.

Next week, it could be L.A. Valley College or Sherman Oaks Notre Dame High School.

Federal Judge David O. Carter, a UCLA grad, isn’t allowing access to the baseball stadium until the school produces a plan that meets his satisfaction to ensure that service to veterans is the predominant focus of the 10-acre facility leased from the U.