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|Pagetext="Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park, built after the Civil War, hosted the first baseball game in Nashville. The low-lying area flooded whenever the Cumberland River overflowed." | |Pagetext="Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park, built after the Civil War, hosted the first baseball game in Nashville. The low-lying area flooded whenever the Cumberland River overflowed." | ||
| - | + | Diana Diekman, ''Live Fast, Love Hard: the Faron Young Story'' (University of Illinois Press, 2007), page 89. Accessed February 2010 in snippet view via Google Books search. | |
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Open Issues: Can we verify and expand this fragment? In the 1960s, this was evidently the oldest ballpark in the US. Is there an indication that play was governed by Association rules? | Open Issues: Can we verify and expand this fragment? In the 1960s, this was evidently the oldest ballpark in the US. Is there an indication that play was governed by Association rules? | ||
Another source notes: "Some sources contend that the occupying Union army brought baseball to Nashville in 1862." See [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=58 http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=58], accessed May 8, 2012. | Another source notes: "Some sources contend that the occupying Union army brought baseball to Nashville in 1862." See [http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=58 http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=58], accessed May 8, 2012. | ||
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