Major League Baseball is staging a game at Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, formerly home to the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League, on Thursday night. The San Francsico Giants and St. Louis Cardinals will square off in a regular-season game at the former home of he Black Barons.

They were the team with whom . The game was already scheduled to honor the Negro Leagues and the impact they had on American professional baseball, but then and now the contest has a feeling of greater significance. Here are the pertinent details.

Giants vs. Cardinals : Thursday, June 20 | : 7:15 p.m.

ET : Rickwood Field (Birmingham, Alabama) : (try for free), MLB.TV | : Fox : RHP (3-7, 6.66) vs.

RHP (2-3, 4.61) : SF -115 | STL -105; over/under: 90 The Giants come in having lost four of six and one of those wins needed a three-run homer with two outs in the ninth. They have been inconsistent and overall not very good, though the 36-39 record right now means they are only one game out of the third NL wild-card spot.

Winn closed April with three very good starts, but has a 13.02 ERA in five starts since. He did have a quality start last time out, but three runs allowed in six innings against the is hardly overly encouraging.

The Cardinals recently played good enough baseball to rise above .500 for the first time since they were 5-4, but they've since lost two straight to the lowly , both in walk-off fashion. Sitting 36-37, they trail the by 7.

5 games in the NL Central, but that'.