Can baseball and historic preservation be good neighbors? Plus the local news for September 20, 2024.
NashVillager Podcast: Oh say, can you sing?
Is a rotating roster of “Star-Spangled Banner” singers a great way to start sports games… or a liability? Plus the local news for July 22, 2024.
Tennessee earns first national title in baseball
The Volunteers become the first No. 1 national seed in the NCAA Tournament to win the title since 1999.
NashVillager Podcast: UT Vols baseball
Will this be the year the Vols win the national title? It hasn’t traditionally been the marquee sport at the University of Tennessee, but baseball has been ascendant for the Vols in recent years. Plus the local news for June 12, 2024 and this week’s What Where WhensDay.
Nation’s dominant program post-COVID, the Tennessee Vols seeking elusive title
The Volunteers’ 204 victories and 540 home runs since the start of the 2021 season are the most of any Division I program. They’ve won two SEC regular-season titles and two conference tournament championships.
Out, About: Take me out to the ball game… for dinner?
Mack Linebaugh’s recent Sounds feature had kept me from mentioning the team again in a NashVillager I wrote, but then I saw, across the field, my answer to how to plug the home team once more: The Band Box.
The past, present and future of women in baseball
Baseball is traditionally a male-dominated sport. However, throughout the history of the game there have been women players, coaches, managers and journalists fighting to make space for themselves and others – including here in Tennessee. Friday marks the debut of Amazon’s new series, A League of Their Own, which follows the journey of the All-American Professional […]
For baseball historian Skip Nipper, talking to lifelong fans inspires hope of a major league team coming to Nashville
It’s not enough to call Skip Nipper a baseball fan. He’s more like a baseball maestro, a historian, author and a collector of stories. It was his dad who first taught him to play, and he continues that legacy as a member of a handful of groups like the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association and […]
ESPN analyst Buster Olney bets his family farm that Nashville will get a MLB team
ESPN analyst Buster Olney joined This Is Nashville host Khalil Ekulona to talk about the changes to this MLB season, what Nashville’s sports scene was like in the late ’80s and why he’s is confident that the city will get a MLB team.
Rounding the bases on baseball in Middle Tennessee
Baseball is back in season! In this episode, we talk about Nashville’s MLB potential with ESPN analyst Buster Olney, Middle Tennessee’s connection the the Negro League, and the future generation of baseball players.
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