Want to see and hear the history of Sulphur Dell?  Author and Web Site owner Skip Nipper is available for speaking engagements at no charge for your Nashville-area luncheon, outing, church group, or civic club meeting.  Presentations can be designed around any time-frame, whether it be for 20 minutes or an hour, and will include detailed information and images that tells the Sulphur Dell story.

Skip recently presented at the 40th Annual Convention of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR) in Atlanta, Georgia, has spoken at several Southern Association Conferences in Birmingham, Alabama, and to various groups including the Hendersonville Evening Rotary Club and Friends of Metro Archive.

You will find his presentation informative and helpful in understanding the impact of Sulphur Dell ballpark on the citizens, commerce, and history of Nashville.

Email Skip at: skip@sulphurdell.com to arrange a meeting or for more information.

Skip Nipper was born and raised in Nashville. His interest in local baseball is deeply-rooted in his life-long love for The National Game, interlaced with fond memories of Nashville’s famous ballpark, Sulphur Dell, shared by others through www.sulphurdell.com.

A 1972 graduate of Memphis State University, Nipper has been a sporting goods sales representative for 38 years for New Era Cap Co.

Nipper is secretary and past-president of the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association, a member of SABR (Society for American Baseball Research) and the Grantland Rice-Fred Russell (Tennessee) Chapter of SABR. He has served as president of the Sporting Goods Agents Association and is a member of the National Sporting Goods Association.

Besides baseball historical research, Nipper enjoys reading, collecting baseball memorabilia, and attending games of the minor league Nashville Sounds.

About Baseball in Nashville (Arcadia Publishing)

As many memories of Sulphur Dell were limited to a generation that did not have access to the internet, Skip Nipper soon began to search for an opportunity to have a reasonably-priced book published to expand the history of the ballpark and the teams that played there.  Arcadia Publishing's "Images of Baseball" series was the natural choice, and in 2006 Nipper began the process of writing and adding captions to accumulated photos.

In March of 2007, Baseball in Nashville came to fruition, and although it gives a broad  summary of Nashville's baseball history, it is considered by Nipper as a testament to the players, teams, and fans who have comprised Nashville's baseball traditions for over 150 years.

He took great delight in compiling this photographic compilation of Nashville’s illustrious baseball history.  He hopes that Baseball in Nashville will rekindle memories for baseball fans in the Nashville area and that his publication does justice to Nashville’s baseball past. Nipper regards the book as a present to his father, Virgil Nipper, who laid the foundation for his own memories through suppertime discussions and backyard practices.