Stadium Minor League History:
Southern League
1978-1984, 1993-1994*
American Association 1985-1997
Pacific Coast League 1998-present
* Note: the stadium hosted
both the regular American Association franchise as well as a temporarily
homeless Southern League franchise during 1993 and 1994. Local fans
got to have baseball almost every night of the summer during those two
years! The Southern League team used to be the Charlotte franchise,
but when Charlotte entered the International League in 1993, the team moved
to Nashville. After its two years there, it spent two years in Wilmington,
NC, before finally settling into a new (and hopefully permanent) home in
Mobile, Alabama.
Current Status:
Home of the Nashville Sounds of the Pacific
Coast League (AAA)
What's Good: It's certainly a comfortable enough place to see a game. The food was OK, but the thing most folks remember is the huge, guitar-shaped scoreboard with the line score running up the neck.
What's Not So Good: Although nothing was really great about the ballpark, nothing was really terrible, either. Because of its relatively large grandstand (almost completely comprised of real seats, not benches), the place can feel eerily empty with a smaller crowd, as it did when I visited (look at the photo).
This Photo:
May 24, 1993 Nashville
Xpress vs. Memphis Chicks (Southern League)
