The San Francisco Giants will open Oracle Park to the public for free on Thursday from noon to 8 p.m. for a free program paying tribute to honor Willie Mays and the Negro Leagues.

Mays, who died in Palo Alto on Tuesday at the age of 93, played for the Giants from 1951 to 1972 — during which the baseball team moved from New York to San Francisco. Mays previously played for the Birmingham Black Barons of the Negro American League.

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Cameron Fozi is a data journalism intern at Bay City News through the Dow Jones News Fund. He is a recent graduate of UC Berkeley, where he reported and edited for the city and campus newspaper, the Daily Californian. In summer 2023, he interned for his hometown newspaper, the San Diego Union-Tribune.