Early baseball in Tennessee/Game 1

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Location	Tennessee
Year	1860
Note on date	Year needs to be confirmed
City	Nashville
State	TN
Country
Site	Sulphur Spring Bottom Athletic Park
Was NY rules baseball	Unknown
Played by	Unknown

"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.

Query: Can we verify and expand this fragment? In the 1960s, this was evidently the oldest ballpark in the US.

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.