Bob Veale, a Birmingham native who pitched for the Pittsburgh Pirates and Boston Red Sox in the 1960s and 1970s, is shown outside Rickwood Field in Birmingham in 2003. Veale died this week at age 89. ...
CHESHIRE — The field that bears his name will live on. Come April, baseball will be back at Burt Leventhal Field at Cheshire High School. For now, the school and community where Leventhal taught and ...