Nashville’s Greatest Game

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!

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