 Baseball returned to Birmingham last night as the Cardinals edged the Giants 6-5 at Rickwood Field, the first major league game ever played in Alabama, at the oldest pro ballpark in the U.S., the home of the Black Barons and the Negro Leagues, with whom Willie Mays made his professional debut in 1948. Bill Greeson, who was on that team with Mays and at age 99, is the oldest living former Negro League player throughout the first pitch.