In this episode, I tell about a special group of Nashville baseball fans and give special tribute to one of them. In 2003 Oktoberfest in Germantown, I first met Pete Mason who shared a special story that occurred at Sulphur Dell.Pete rec...

When asked how I feel about MLB coming to Nashville, I do not hesitate to answer, and in this episode you will hear me tell what my stance is.Controversial? No, not when many share the same feelings I do. Taking a stand, having an opinio...

i hope you enjoyed hearing Mark Aubrey in Part One, because we continue talking about Knoxville baseball, the Negro Southern League, and University of Tennessee baseball in Part Two!Mark has researching skills like few others, and you ca...

Mark Aubrey is a distinguished Negro Leagues researcher from Seymour, Tennessee, near Knoxville. His focus has been on the 1920 Negro Southern League and the history of the Knoxville Giants.You will enjoy listening to Mark and his passio...

Listen to this episode with TrapperHaskins as he tells about the influence of his father and family, and how he became one of the founders of the Tennessee Vintage Base Ball Association.Trapper is a passionate author, musician, carpenter...

In 2000, Trapper Haskins moved to Maine with his wife, Mandy, where he undertook a two-year apprenticeship learning traditional wooden boatbuilding in Rockland. Once finished, they took the rowboat they built, Oxbow, 2,300 miles down the Missis...

In Part Two of our talk, author Keith Wood continues discussing the Memphis Red Sox with me. His work brings out the financially-stable Martin brothers, the location of Martin Park, and how politics shaped Negro League baseball in Memphis.<...

Keith Wood landed a position in the Memphis City School District at Sheffield High after college. He moved to Millington Central High School in northwest Shelby County while completing his master's in history at the University of Memphis.

In 1949, Bob Borkowski batted .376 in 138 games with the Nashville Vols to win the Double-A Southern Association batting title. On July 23, teammate Carl Sawatski was leading the team in batting with a .379 average, with Babe Barna hitting at a...

We were fortunate to have New York Yankees great Don Mattingly as our guest speaker on January 19. Like Harmon Killebrew many years ago, he was a terrific guest speaker. The only difference was that Killebrew stood behind a podium and delivered...

The results are in! This project began in September when I asked for votes for favorite players who wore a Nashville Vols uniform beginning in 1950 until thnn team closed up shop after the 1963 season.In this episode you will learn the ...

You are in for a treat in this episode, as Bob Hale and I talk about the possibilities for future Major League Baseball expansion plans.Bob is the administrator for a fantastic Facebook group, “MLB Expansion” which can be found here:&nbs...

With 2024 ending, I want to review the Top 10 episodes you listened to from my baseball history podcasts during the year. First of all, thank you, especially for those who made a comment or maybe listened more than once. I cannot thank you enou...

As best as I can tell, 92 former major league players passed away in 2024, and there are some great names among them, such as Mike Cubbage, Billy Gardner (who played for the Nashville Vols in 1953), Rico Carty, Ed Ott, and Don Wert among them.&...

You may already know this, but "Donnie Baseball", the "Hit Man", is returning to Nashville for a special night in January. He will be the featured guest at the 87th Annual Old Timers banquet to be held on Sunday evening, January 19th, at the Sh...

My book was a labor of love for more than one reason. Dedicated to my father, Virgil Nipper, and supported in a special way by my mother, Dorothy, in this episode I talk about how the concept began and the encouragement I received to bring it t...

Word has come of the passing of one of Nashville’s best all-time pitchers, Bob Kelly. His obituary begins by saying, “Bob went to the diamond in the sky on Wednesday, November 27, 2024, at the age of 97.”Kelly was a dynamic pitcher with...

With the possibility of major league baseball coming to Music City, it begs the question: “where would a team play?”A better question is, who’s going to build it?In this episode, I compare special ballparks built in Nashville whi...

Let me tell you about someone from Nashville, a professional player, a pitcher, and a pretty good one, too. Frank George Hahn pitched for Cincinnati between 1899-1905, and the New York Highlanders in 1906. He pitched in 243 games, made 231 star...

I have been curious about why Tom Wilson moved his ballclub when he did. First, to Cleveland in 1931 (renaming them the Cubs), then back to Nashville that same year, then to Columbus and Detroit and back to Nashville in 1935, Washington, D.C. i...

There are many side stories with a Nashville baseball connection. In this episodes, learn about how Boston, Nashville, and Cleveland were connected by a major league team owner who had his eye on a successful minor league manager he wanted to b...

Every once in a while, I am invited to speak to a civic group or in a school classroom about Sulphur Dell and Nashville’s excellent baseball history, including Negro Leagues baseball.When my friends at the Nashville Stars office allowed ...

In January of 1969, Herschel Greer, vice-president of Vols, Inc., the stock corporation that owned the now-defunct Nashville Vols and the property known as Sulphur Dell, announced the ownership group approved a sale to Frederic Gregg, Jr. Gregg...

Many Hall of Famers appeared in Nashville at Sulphur Dell or Tom Wilson Park, either in a regular season game, exhibition game, barnstorming game, or as a manager of one of the ball clubs.In this episode, let me take you to 1905 during a...

An African American a cappella ensemble consisting of students at Fisk University organized in 1871 to tour and raise funds for college. The Fisk Jubilee Singers became famous worldwide.In 1882, a baseball team was formed to become the ...