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Nashville’s Greatest Game
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Nashville’s ball club won the first two Southern Association championships in 1901 and 1902, then fell on hard times for the next five seasons, finishing fifth, fifth, seventh, seventh, and eighth. But in 1908, the team returned to its winning ways in a tight pennant race that went down to the final game.
Local sportswriter Grantland Rice named that game against New Orleans “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie.”
Listen as I tell about the chase for the 1908 Southern Association pennant, and Rice’s influence on Nashville baseball history!
Want to stay in touch? Find me here:
Twitter: Skip's Corner
Instagram: @skipscorner
Facebook: Skip Nipper
Email me: 262downright@gmail.com
All Skip’s Corner episodes © 2022-2024 by Skip Nipper. All Rights Reserved.
Thanks to my podcast producer David Nipper, who also wrote and performs the background music, "Sulphur Dell Sunset" © 2017 Black Train Records. All Rights Reserved.
Thanks for listening!
125 episodes
Manage episode 374262185 series 3334627
Nashville’s ball club won the first two Southern Association championships in 1901 and 1902, then fell on hard times for the next five seasons, finishing fifth, fifth, seventh, seventh, and eighth. But in 1908, the team returned to its winning ways in a tight pennant race that went down to the final game.
Local sportswriter Grantland Rice named that game against New Orleans “The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie.”
Listen as I tell about the chase for the 1908 Southern Association pennant, and Rice’s influence on Nashville baseball history!
Want to stay in touch? Find me here:
Twitter: Skip's Corner
Instagram: @skipscorner
Facebook: Skip Nipper
Email me: 262downright@gmail.com
All Skip’s Corner episodes © 2022-2024 by Skip Nipper. All Rights Reserved.
Thanks to my podcast producer David Nipper, who also wrote and performs the background music, "Sulphur Dell Sunset" © 2017 Black Train Records. All Rights Reserved.
Thanks for listening!
125 episodes
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