Early baseball in Tennessee/Game 1
From SABR Encyclopedia
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|Site=Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park | |Site=Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park | ||
|NYBaseball=Unknown | |NYBaseball=Unknown | ||
Revision as of 14:55, 15 April 2010
| Spread of baseball: Home -> Tennessee -> Early baseball in Tennessee/Game 1 |
| Location | Tennessee |
|---|---|
| Year | 1860 |
| Note on date | Year needs to be confirmed |
| City | Nashville |
| State | TN |
| Country | US |
| Site | Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park |
| Was NY rules baseball | Unknown |
| Played by | Unknown |
| First in Tennessee | Yes |
"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 (U Illinois Press, Date?), page? Accessed February 2010 in snippet view via Google Books search.
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 "Even before the Civil War, Tennesseans played baseball and other games at the Sulphur Spring Bottom in Nashville." See http://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/imagegallery.php?EntryID=S085, accessed 3/4/2010.
