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Isaac Newton "Ike" "Newt" Fisher was an American Major League Baseball catcher. He played for the Philadelphia Phillies of the National League in 1898. Fisher helped organize the Southern Association, a higher-level minor league, and led its Nashville Baseball Club to win the first two Southern Association pennants as a player-manager.
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William Grimm Hirsig was an automobile dealer in Nashville, Tennessee, a partner of J. B. Deeds in the firm Deeds & Hirsig. He was once president of the Nashville Vols baseball team. He was also a member of the county workhouse board.
Nashville, Tennessee, has hosted Minor League Baseball (MiLB) teams since the late 19th century but has never been home to a Major League Baseball (MLB) team. The city's professional baseball history dates back to 1884 with the formation of the Nashville Americans, who were charter members of the original Southern League in 1885 and played their home games at Sulphur Spring Park, later renamed Athletic Park and Sulphur Dell. This ballpark was the home of Nashville's minor league teams through 1963. Of the numerous clubs to play there, the best-known and longest-operating was the Nashville Vols, who competed from 1901 to 1963, primarily in the Southern Association.
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- 1 2 3 Simpson, John A. (2007). "The greatest game ever played in Dixie" : the Nashville Vols, their 1908 season, and the championship game. Jefferson, N.C.: McFarland. p. 32. ISBN 978-0-7864-3050-5 . Retrieved May 19, 2018.
- ↑ Ammenheuser, David. "Coming Home to Sulphur Dell". The Tennessean. Retrieved February 8, 2020.