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Major League Baseball

NashVillager Podcast: TSU baseball on the upswing

Nina Cardona

April 29, 2024

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Should we have seen the return of baseball to Tennessee State coming? Plus your local newscast for April 29, 2024.

Filed Under: NashVillager Podcast, WPLN News Tagged With: Major League Baseball, Tennessee State University

For baseball historian Skip Nipper, talking to lifelong fans inspires hope of a major league team coming to Nashville

Tasha A.F. Lemley

April 11, 2022

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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 […]

Filed Under: Features, Perspectives, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: baseball, Major League Baseball, Skip Nipper, Vanderbilt baseball

ESPN analyst Buster Olney bets his family farm that Nashville will get a MLB team

This Is Nashville

April 10, 2022

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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. 

Filed Under: News Hits, Sports, WPLN News Tagged With: baseball, ESPN, Major League Baseball

Rounding the bases on baseball in Middle Tennessee

Tasha A.F. Lemley

April 8, 2022

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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.

Filed Under: Programs Tagged With: baseball, Major League Baseball, Nashville Sounds, Sports

Playing To Win: Sounds Owner Says Switch to Oakland A’s Is The Best Move

emily west

September 23, 2014

The Nashville Sounds sealed the deal today, becoming the farm team for the Oakland A’s.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: Major League Baseball, Nashville Sounds, Oakland A's, Triple A

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