Rickwood Field is the oldest baseball field in the US.
It's also where comedian Roy Wood Junior spent a lot of time growing up.
Racism was around, but his baseball field somehow was a separate oasis from all of that for blacks and whites, baseball, Birmingham and race in America.
On the latest episode of the Sunday Story from NPR's up first podcast.
Hey life kit listeners.
I'm Robin Hilton, host of NPR Music's all songs considered.
It is graduation season, so we decided we'd do something fun for it this year.
We asked listeners to tell us about the songs that remind them of their final days of high school.
And it turns out those songs unlocked a whole lot of memories and stories and also some great advice that we wanted to share with the life kid audience.
So enjoy this episode and then maybe share it with the graduate in your life.
And as always, you can listen to new episodes of all songs considered every Tuesday wherever you get podcasts.
Here's the show.
Steven Thompson, I heard a rumor about you.
What would that be, Robin?
And it's a rumor that I just cannot believe is true.
So I have to.
Anything you have heard about me is a dirty, dirty lie.
Well, what I heard was that you were actually a very, very good student.
Well, keep in mind that half the curriculum in those days was just cave maintenance.
So how to keep your cave clean?