What does BBB stand for?

Hall of Famer Willie Mays and four surviving members of the Birmingham Black Barons will receive the Willie Mays Award for outstanding achievement in baseball history.

Among the more interesting profiles are two guys named Arthur: Art Pease, who went to Portland to run in a five-mile event and ended up running a full marathon by mistake, and Arthur Lee Wilson, an outstanding minor league infielder and batting champ who played with the Birmingham Black Barons in the Negro American League and "made it to the big show for a cup of coffee - 19 games with the New York Giants," at the age of 31.

83, who played with the Homestead Grays and Birmingham Black Barons in three Negro Leagues championships, died May 17 in Gretna, La.

Throughout the game, public-address announcer Larry Thornhill will read information about the Negro League to the crowd, including a tidbit about a certain 15-year old center fielder for the 1947 Birmingham Black Barons named Willie Mays.

A player from the Birmingham Black Barons found that out when he sniped, "How are you going to strike anyone out?

Both teams will wear uniforms of former Negro Leagues teams, the Legends wearing wool uniforms of the Kansas City Monarchs and the local team wearing the colors of the Birmingham Black Barons.

Underwood was sent a contract to play for the Birmingham Black Barons, but he never signed it.

A jubilant crowd carries pitcher Roy Partlow on their shoulders; the Birmingham Black Barons, featuring a 17-year-old Willie Mays, celebrate a win in their cinder block locker room; an 1895 shot of the Page Fence Giants shows the players of this legendary barnstorming club seated on rolls of wire fence.