Renovations to Rickwood Field are expected to begin in October in anticipation for next year’s “MLB at Rickwood Field: A Tribute to the Negro Leagues.”

The game, set for June 20, will feature the St. Louis Cardinals playing the San Francisco Giants.

It’s the latest event game for Major League Baseball, which found ratings success with special games at the “Field of Dreams” site outside of Dyersville, Iowa, the setting of the popular movie.

MLB’s game there in 2021, featuring the Chicago White Sox and New York Yankees, drew the highest TV ratings for a regular season game in more than a decade, and the “Field of Dreams” game returned in 2022, but none is being held this year due to construction at the site.

Other non-traditional site games have taken place in London, Mexico City and Williamsport, Penn.

Rickwood Field, built in 1910 and America’s oldest surviving ballpark, was the home field of The Birmingham Black Barons, which won Negro American League championships in 1943, 1944 and 1948. The Black Barons played at Rickwood from 1920 through 1960.

A total of 107 Hall of Famers have played or managed there.

According to The Washington Post, the renovations at Rickwood Field will begin in October. They include turf renovation, improvements to the dugouts, padding and moving the outfield walls, adding new lights and assorted safety and maintenance items.

“Baseball cannot look at the assignment as getting the stadium up to par,” Post columnist Jerry Brewer wrote. “It’s more like polishing a neglected treasure.”

No plan for ticket sales for the MLB at Rickwood Field game has been announced yet.

Minor league teams that called Rickwood Field home included the Birmingham A’s from 1967 to 1975, with future Hall of Famer Reggie Jackson playing there in 1967 before quickly moving up to the Major Leagues and going on to star with the Oakland A’s. Previous minor league teams playing at Rickwood typically went by the name Birmingham Barons and played at the park when it opened in 1910, on into the 1960s.

The Birmingham Barons, a Double-A minor league affiliate of the Chicago White Sox, played home games at Rickwood Field from 1981 to 1987, then at the Hoover Met from 1988 to 2012 before returning to Birmingham, moving to Regions Field in 2013.

Rickwood Field hosted the Rickwood Classic as an annual event from 1988 through 2019, with the Barons returning to their former stadium for one game a season before the pandemic halted the tradition.