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“Baseball was, is and always will be, to me, the best game in the world.” —Babe Ruth
That Was Then Nashville’s New Ballpark Gets Back to Its Origins
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aseball is about so much more than hitting the ball and running the bases. It is a self-evident truth about the roots of American culture. And as construction moves forward on a new home for the Triple-A Nashville Sounds organization, there could be no better place to continue Nashville’s baseball legacy than the already storied and historic site
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chosen for the new ballpark, Sulphur Dell. “It is the historic home of baseball,” explains Mayor Karl Dean, who has been instrumental in getting the project signed, sealed and delivered. “Jackie Robinson, Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig and Joe DiMaggio all played baseball there. It was also home of the Negro League’s Elite Giants when major league ball was still segregated.
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By Sherry Stinson