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100 years ago today the first baseball game was played at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama. It is the oldest baseball park in America. It is also still being used today. 109 of Baseball Hall of Fame members played at least one game here. Babe Ruth, Hank Aaron, Willie Mays, Satchel Paige, Dizzy Dean and Ty Cobb to name a few, It is open to the public on weekdays to walk around and even to play baseball. If you are ever in Birmingham plan on spending some time there if you are a baseball fan
Another view from the top of Alpha Tower in Birmingham in 2007. This is looking towards the high ground of Dudley. The NIA arena can be seen in the forground.
Stopped at a train spotting platform in Birmingham Alabama and snapped a few photos of a passing train capturing the rolling graffiti art gallery.
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND - AUGUST 24: Gabriel of Arsenal celebrates after Leandro Trossard of Arsenal (obscured) scores his team's first goal during the Premier League match between Aston Villa FC and Arsenal FC at Villa Park on August 24, 2024 in Birmingham, England. (Photo by Stuart MacFarlane/Arsenal FC via Getty Images)
UAB alumni John Woolley, left, and Chiharu Takahashi Roach, second left, are joined by Assistant Professor Doug Baulos, center, and artist Pinky Bass, right, in performing "The Blackest Crow" in their Appalachian Crankie installation, October 10 at the REVIVE Birmingham Eastlake Artist Village, located inside the College Theatre, Birmingham, Ala. Photo by Jared Ragland
Table-tennis table in an open-air part of the basement, from where the library building itself looks even taller!
Birmingham Cathedral
Birmingham's church of St Philip was designed by Thomas Archer in 1709 and largely finished by 1715 (the tower being completed 1725). The original stone weathered badly so the exterior was entirely refaced in the 1860s (though the tower had to wait till 1958) and a new larger chancel replaced Archer's shallow apse at the east end in 1883-4 (by J.A, Chatwin).
The church was designated as the cathedral of the new Birmingham Diocese in 1905 and is one of the only 'parish church cathedrals' which hasn't undergone any structural alteration since it's change in status. It does still possess the feel of a grand city church, rather than a cathedral in the true sense.
The real treasure of this church however is revealed within, as the interior is dominated by four superb stained glass windows by Edward Burne Jones dating from the 1880s (three in the apse, one at the west end). These are perhaps Burne Jones's finest achievements, and intentionally so, for it was in this very church the artist was baptised.