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May 9, 1867 |
At a called meeting of the Nashville Baseball
Club, a resolution of tribute is passed to James Maguire, a worthy and
esteemed member of the club who had just died suddenly. Members
voted to wear the usual badge of mourning at all matches in which their
club is a party to during the current season. The resolution is
signed by James Boner, chairman, William Moore and James Doherty,
committeemen, and M. J. McKee, secretary |
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September 24, 1867 |
The Phoenix nine is victorious over the
Nashville base ball club 25-20 at the Phoenix team's home grounds
in Edgefield |
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March 24, 1885 |
An extra force of
workmen is put to work on the grounds of Athletic park, grading the field
and laying off the diamond before Nashville's Southern League season
begins |
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March 30, 1885 |
In the first game scheduled between Indianapolis
and the Nashville Americans, the Indianapolis club wins 8-4 |
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March 31, 1885 |
Indianapolis outscores the Nashville 12-4 in the
second game between to the two teams |
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April 1, 1885 |
Before 1,500 spectators, the Nashville Americans
top the Clevelands by a score of 15-7. The game begins at 3 PM. James Hillery
is the umpire. |
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April 2, 1885 |
Nashville beats Cleveland 3-2 in a second
exhibition game at Sulphur Spring park. The game lasts two hours
and ten minutes |
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May 4, 1885 |
After a long road trip to open the inaugural
Southern League season, Nashville loses its first home game to Columbus
3-2 |
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August 15, 1885 |
Louis Henke, first baseman of the Atlanta
baseball team, dies from injuries received in the game with the
Nashville club the day before. The game scheduled for today is
postponed |
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March 18, 1886 |
Nashville shuts out Memphis 8-0 |
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March 23, 1886 |
Nashville defeats Pittsburg 13-6.
Infielder Charles Marr is 4-4 at the plate and participates in two
double plays |
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March 26, 1887 |
George Washington Bradley, new manager of the
Nashville entry in the Southern League, pitches his team to an 11-10 win
against the visiting Shamrocks of Cincinnati as a prelude to opening day
against Memphis |
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January 14, 1895 |
Southern League president J. B. Nicklin presides
over an expansion meeting in Parlor 7 of the Read House in Chattanooga.
Franchises are awarded to W. H. Stallings for Nashville and Henry Powers
(who also owns the New Orleans club) for Chattanooga |
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July 27, 1895 |
Manager Doyle of the New York Baseball Club
receives a signed contract from Butler, an outfielder of Nashville of
the Southern League after New York paid $1,000 to gain his release.
Butler, who will play left field, had a batting average of .371 during
the season in Nashville and led the team with 34 stolen bases. He
will join New York in Washington |
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August 18, 1895 |
Pittsburg signs left-handed pitcher Samuel Moran
of the Nashville club. He will join his new team in
New York immediately. Moran pitched to a 22-12 record, striking
out 113 Southern League batters during the season |
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February 12, 1897 |
Representatives from Nashville, Terre Haute,
Washington, Evansville, Paducah, and Cairo meet in Evansville to
finalize plans for the Central League. W. L. Work is the Nashville
representative. Uniforms are selected as follows:
Evansville, cadet blue, white trimmings; Terre Haute, gray and blue;
Paducah, old gold and maroon; Washington, brown and red; Cairo, gray and
black; and Nashville, blue and maroon. Nashville will host
Evansville on opening day April 28th to open the season |
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October 20, 1900 |
The Southern Association of Baseball Clubs is
organized in Birmingham, AL. Franchises are granted to 6 cities:
Nashville, Chattanooga, Memphis, Shreveport, New Orleans, and
Birmingham. Applications are also received from Atlanta,
Montgomery, Little Rock, and Mobile |
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February 28, 1901 |
Meeting in Memphis, the Southern Association
franchise originally awarded to Atlanta is transferred to Selma.
The league's schedule is also finalized |
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May 6, 1901 |
After opening the season with a 3-game sweep in
Chattanooga, winning 15-14, 5-4, and 19-8, the Nashville club opens its
home season with Chattanooga |
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August 23, 1902 |
Nashville loses a doubleheader to Birmingham's
Irwin Wilhelm who tosses both games. Nashville is able to collect
only one hit in each game against Wilhelm, losing 0-5 and 1-5 |
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September 8, 1902 |
An agreement is signed in Memphis, TN that
the Southern league in 1903 will include teams from New Orleans, Mobile,
Birmingham, Montgomery, Savannah, Memphis, Atlanta, and Nashville, with
Little Rock, Shreveport, and Chattanooga eliminated. Although it
is announced that Ed Abbaticchio will become Nashville's manager as Newt
Fisher goes to Birmingham, Fisher remains as manager with the Vols well
into the 1905 season |
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November 20, 1902 |
The Cleveland club of the American League
purchases pitcher Hugh Hill from Nashville for $500. Hill was 6-5
in 1901 and 22-7 in 1902 |
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June 9, 1904 |
Clyde 'Red' Russell and Julius 'Doc' Wiseman are
taken ill after dinner at the Alcoa Hotel. Ice cream
was served after the meal and attending physicians attribute the
sickness to some preservative used in the milk or to ptomaine poisoning.
Southern League umpire W. C. Lack was one of twenty-two
guests who also became ill |
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July 19, 1904 |
Dan Lowney, Nashville shortstop, is arrested and
fined for throwing a bat at spectators in the grandstand in Memphis |
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July 7, 1905 |
At a meeting of the company recently organized
to purchase the Nashville baseball franchise, Bradley Walker is elected
president, W. W. Taylor, vice-president, and W. H. Bordeiser is elected
secretary and treasurer |
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September 1, 1905 |
Mike Finn resigns as manager of the Nashville
baseball club
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January 5, 1908 |
Bill Bernhardt is named as manager of the
Nashville Baseball Club |
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February 16, 1908 |
Cleveland announces that it will have 2
farm clubs in 1908; Toledo, managed by Bill Armour, and Nashville,
managed by Bill Bernhardt |
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April 5, 1908 |
The Nashville and Brooklyn baseball clubs are fined
$100 each for illegally drafting Finlayson from Lynn, MA, and he is
returned to Lynn subject to Class A draft. Having failed to draft the
player during the major league drafting dates, the Brooklyn management
is alleged to have requested Nashville to draft the player for them,
offering to pay expenses. This having been done by Nashville, the whole
transaction is declared illegal |
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March 29, 1909 |
The Chicago Cubs and the Nashville club
engage in a game with the Cubs beating Bill Bernhardt's Vols 3-0, with
Boston Red Sox players attending the game. The Cubs and Red Sox are
holding spring training in Nashville, and in the next two days the
Nashville Club will meet the Red Sox |
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September 19, 1910 |
New Orleans and Nashville complete their
game in Nashville in 42 minutes |
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September 23, 1910 |
William Bernhardt announces that he will
not manage the Nashville team next season. The Vols first baseman,
William Schwartz, will reportedly be offered the job to manage; he has
formerly managed at Akron |
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October 10, 1910 |
President Ford Kuhn of the Nashville Baseball
Club closes a deal with Bill Schwartz to manage the team next season.
Schwartz played first base for Nashville the latter part of the 1910
season |
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December 17, 1910 |
W. G. Hirsig is elected President of the Nashville
Baseball Club |
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August 18, 1911 |
Charles Cates pitches Nashville to a 4-2 win over Montgomery |
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May 23, 1912 |
Southern Association President William M.
Kavanaugh threatens to transfer games scheduled for Nashville to Little
Rock or some other city unless he hears from the officials of the
Nashville club regarding the status of a receivership hearing |
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March 20, 1913 |
The Philadelphia Athletics beat the
Nashville Vols 11-8, as Frank "Home Run" Baker hits a home run over the
centerfield fence at Sulphur Dell, and Eddie Collins hits an inside-the-park home run.
Egan, Barry, and Collins had become ill from eating 'planked' fish, but
Barry and Collins are able to participate in the game |
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March 18, 1914 |
Infielder Artie Hofman and outfielder Del Young
join the Federal League and are suspended by Nashville |
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February 11, 1915 |
Outfielder Bert King and
pitcher Heine Berger refuse
to sign 1915 contracts, holding out for more salary from the Nashville
club |
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August 21, 1915 |
Manager William Schwartz announces in
Mobile, AL that first baseman Eugene Paulette has been sold to the St.
Louis Browns. Paulette will not report until the end of the season.
Dick Kauffman, Gus Williams, and two additional players will report to
Nashville as part of the deal |
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September 1, 1915 |
Nashville
Vols centerfielder Floyd Farmer participates in 3 double plays.
The plays are scored as: Farmer to Stark (ss), Farmer to Rogers (p), and
Farmer to Paulette (1b) |
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December 20, 1915 |
Nashville acquires 3 players from the Quincy, IL
club: outfielder Sherrer, catcher Boegle, and pitcher Tretter. All are
secured under optional agreement |
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June 18, 1916 |
Nashville pitcher Tom Rogers hits Mobile third
baseman Johnny Dodge with a pitch, striking him in the face |
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June 19, 1916 |
Johnny Dodge, Mobile infielder who formerly played
with the Reds and Phillies in 1912 & 1913, dies from injuries suffered
from being hit by a pitch from Nashville's Tom Rogers the previous day |
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July 11, 1916 |
Tom Rogers pitches a perfect game for Nashville against
Chattanooga, striking out 4 and winning 2-0. The game time
is one hour and 25 minutes. The Vols manage only one hit against
Chattanooga's Jim "Lefty' Allen |
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September 11, 1916 |
The president of the Nashville club
re-signs Roy Ellam as manager for the 1917 season
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May 27, 1918 |
Nashville collects 27 hits in winning
against Chattanooga 20-0 |
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February 21, 1919 |
Roy Ellam is re-elected manager by the
directors of the Nashville baseball club |
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March 27, 1919 |
The Vols begin spring training at Sulphur
Dell with 13 players reporting. Wet grounds forced Manager Roy Ellam to
postpone workouts until March 28 |
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March 28, 1919 |
John D. Martin, president of the Southern
Association, arrives in Nashville to urge the State Supreme Court to
render an early decision in allowing Sunday baseball games |
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April 12, 1919 |
The Tennessee Supreme Court today renders a
decision which permits Sunday baseball in the state. The Court holds
that the blue laws of 1893 do not apply to baseball, as the game was
not then being played |
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March 26, 1920 |
Thomas T. Wilson, T. Clay Moore, J. B. Boyd,
Marshall Garrett, Walter Phillips, W. H. Pettis, J. L. Overton, and R.
H. Tabor charter a corporation, with the State of Tennessee, "Nashville Negro Baseball Association
and Amusement Company", for the purpose "of organizing base ball clubs
and encouraging the art of playing the game of baseball according to
high and honorable standards and of encouraging the establishment of a
league of clubs in different section(s) of the state; and also of
furnishing such amusements as usually accompanying base ball games and
entertainments. Said corporation to be located in Nashville,
Tennessee, and shall have an authorized capital stock of $5,000.00" |
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August 14, 1920 |
Harry Grabiner,
secretary of the Chicago White Sox, announces that pitcher George
Washington Payne and
catcher George Lees have been sent to the Nashville club to replace
pitcher
Clarence Clement "Shovel" Hodge and catcher Clarence
'Bubber' Jonnard while they are being
given a trial with the Alabaster Sox |
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October 5, 1920 |
Roy Ellam, manager of the Nashville club since the
1916 season, is dismissed, stating from his home in Conshohocken, PA "I
understand they charge me with not getting results" |
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June 25, 1921 |
Manager Hub Perdue is dismissed as manager and
second baseman Chick Knaupp is placed in temporary charge of the team |
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June 23, 1922 |
Vols catcher Gil Meyers is spiked by Little Rock
pitcher Wallace Warmoth in a play at first base, and Meyers' tendon is
severed above his ankle. The surgeon who operates on him states
that Meyers will be out of baseball for good |
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July 18, 1923 |
Lance Richbourg, is sent to Nashville from
Columbia, South Carolina and later converts to the outfield from third base |
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September 21, 1923 |
Hazen Cuyler, who batted .340 and led the league
in stolen bases with 68, reports to the Pittsburgh Pirates after being
purchased by the major league team. Cuyler led the Vols with a
.340 batting average and led the league in stolen bases with 68 during
the season |
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December 13, 1923 |
Vols catcher Eiffert is traded to London,
Ontario of the Michigan-Ontario League, for catcher Leo Mackey.
Harris, Fields, and Lankenau are sold to London |
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March 13, 1924 |
Nashville acquires pitcher Harry G. Shriver and
outfielder Bert Griffith from the Brooklyn team of the National League.
The purchase price is not disclosed |
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October 9, 1924 |
Former Nashville player Jake Daubert, after
disobeying his doctor's orders and playing in Cincinnati's last game of
the season in New York, dies from complications of an appendectomy
performed the week before |
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April 7, 1925 |
The Chicago White Sox win their 16th consecutive
spring training game in Nashville versus the Vols, 12-6 |
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July 7, 1925 |
At the player's own request, Chet Tolson is
returned to Nashville by the American League Cleveland club.
Tolson who had been acquired by Cleveland only the week before, states
that he is not ready for the major leagues |
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July 30, 1925 |
Nashville shortstop Johnny Bates gets
two hits in
a game against Atlanta, beginning a 46-game consecutive hit streak that
does not end until September 17, 1925 against Little Rock. During
his streak, Bates amasses 72 hits and 44 runs and ends the 1925 season
with a .349 mark |
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August 27, 1925 |
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, Commissioner of
Baseball, announces that has has found no justification for penalties to Vols players Fred Eichrodt and Lute Roy for allegations of attempts to
switch the two players to New Orleans for the remainder of the season to
enhance the Pelicans chances to win the championship. However, the
Commissioner states that Vols manager Jimmy Hamilton is "highly
censurable for encouraging Ralph McGill, sports editor of the
Nashville Banner, to
publish the story". Larry Gilbert, manager of the New Orleans club,
testified in Chicago |
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September 7, 1925 |
Evelyn Burnette,
niece of Nashville baseball club president J. A. G. Sloan, is killed
when the car driven by her uncle overturns on a curve of the Dixie
Highway in Tullahoma, Tennessee en route to Chattanooga for today's ball
game |
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October 25, 1925 |
The Vols announce that Jimmy Hamilton has
been retained as manager for a fourth season |
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February 12, 1926 |
Nashville Vols manager Jimmy Hamilton
purchases the Raleigh club of the Piedmont League. Hamilton will
remain as manager of the Nashville ball club for 1927 |
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March 25, 1927 |
The first contest held in the new 'turned-around'
ballpark is an exhibition game played between
the Nashville Vols and Minneapolis Millers. The Millers win 5-3
and Minneapolis right-fielder Dick Loftus hits the first home run in the
new park |
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March 26, 1927 |
The Toledo Mud Hens visit new Sulphur Dell and
player-manager Casey Stengel hits a triple against Nashville |
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April 1, 1927 |
Vols second baseman John Black pinch-hits for
the pitcher in the fourth inning and slugs Nashville's first home run in
Nashville's new ballpark in an exhibition game against the Milwaukee
Brewers |
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April 7, 1927 |
The 65th General Assembly of Tennessee adjourns
early to see Babe Ruth and the NY Yankees at Sulphur Dell. A
resolution had been adopted to invite Ruth to address the Senate, but he
sent word that it would be impossible for him to appear because of a
lack of time |
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April 12, 1927 |
On opening day of the Southern Association
schedule in Nashville, Atlanta Crackers outfielder George "Mule" Haas
slams the first regular-season home run hit at new Sulphur Dell.
Haas' blast comes in the second inning. Atlanta wins 10-2 before
7,535 loyal Nashville fans |
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June 27, 1927 |
Nashville defeats the Birmingham club 2-1 in 11
innings, snapping the Barons streak of 19 successive wins |
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March 22, 1928 |
The Minneapolis
Millers of the American Association option first baseman Jim Oglesby to
Nashville |
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March 24, 1928 |
The New York Yankees option right-handed
pitcher Louis McEvoy to the Vols |
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April 1, 1928 |
The Cincinnati Reds fall to the Vols 3-2 at Sulphur
Dell |
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December 7, 1928 |
Blackie Carter, outfield, and George Milstead,
left-handed pitcher, are purchased by Nashville from Toledo. Nashville
also sells Leo Mackey, catcher, to Mobile, and trades Oscar Fuhr,
left-handed pitcher, to New Orleans for Beans Minor, outfielder and
first baseman |
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April 5, 1929 |
Canton, managed by former Vol manager
Jimmy Hamilton, wins an exhibition victory from Nashville 17-11.
Due to field conditions at Sulphur Dell, the game is played at
Centennial Park |
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August 19, 1929 |
Clarence Rowland's Vols have recorded 20
wins to only 3 defeats in their past 23 games while hammering out 10
home runs and pulling to within a game and a half of first place |
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June 14, 1930 |
Vols first baseman Jim Poole hits 3 home runs, a
double, and a single against Mobile to set a new league record with 15 total bases |
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