Clinton "Tiny" Forge, whose career in professional baseball came full-circle when he was an honored guest at a Major League Baseball game in his native Birmingham, Alabama in 2024, died Sunday. A catcher, Forge played professionally for the Detroit Stars of the Negro League in the 1950s and played against future Hall of Famer Hank Aaron. More news: Yankees World Series Champion DiesAfter stepping away from professional baseball, Forge found a second athletic life in golf. Forge was one of a handful of former Negro Leagues players honored at a convention held by the Society For American Baseball Research in Birmingham in June 2022. The site of the last Negro Leagues World Series in 1948, Rickwood Field was also the ballpark where Baseball Hall of Famer Willie Mays got his start as a teenager.