Greer Stadium as viewed down the first base line.

Greer Stadium's unique guitar-shaped scoreboard.

Herschel Greer Stadium, named for Herschel Lynn Greer, is a minor league baseball stadium. It is located in Nashville, Tennessee on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification located approximately two miles (three km) south of downtown Nashville. The stadium is most recognizable by its large guitar-shaped scoreboard, on which the line score is displayed across the neck. Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 617 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Herschel Greer Stadium... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 617 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Herschel Greer Stadium... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 626 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Herschel Greer Stadium... Image File history File linksMetadata Size of this preview: 800 × 600 pixel Image in higher resolution (2048 × 1536 pixel, file size: 626 KB, MIME type: image/jpeg) File links The following pages on the English Wikipedia link to this file (pages on other projects are not listed): Herschel Greer Stadium... Herschel Lynn Greer (1906-1976, born in Dickson County, Tennessee), was a prominent Nashville businessman and a major force behind the effort to keep a professional baseball team in Nashville in the mid-1900s. ... A Class A California League game in San Jose, California (1994) Minor baseball leagues are North American professional baseball leagues that compete at a level below that of Major League Baseball. ... Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia is capable of being converted from a rectangular rugby football field to an oval for cricket and Australian rules football games This article is about the building type. ... Nickname: Music City Location in Davidson County and the state of Tennessee Coordinates: Country United States State Tennessee Counties Davidson County Founded: 1779 Incorporated: 1806 Government  - Mayor Bill Purcell (D) Area  - City  526. ... Fort Negley was a fortification built for the American Civil War, located approximately two miles (three km) south of downtown Nashville, Tennessee. ... This article is becoming very long. ... It has been suggested that this article or section be merged into Central business district. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... In baseball, the statistical summary of a game is reported in a box score. ...

Greer, as it is familiarly called, was built in 1978 as a venue for the Nashville Sounds, originally a AA minor league baseball team in the Southern League, affiliated with the Cincinnati Reds. During the team's operation it has subsequently been in several leagues and affiliated with several major league organizations; the Sounds are currently in the AAA Pacific Coast League and affiliated with the Milwaukee Brewers. In the early 1990s the stadium simultaneously hosted the Nashville Xpress, a Southern League team which played its home games when the Sounds were on the road, and vice versa. 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... Milwaukee Brewers National League AAA Nashville Sounds AA Huntsville Stars A Brevard County Manatees West Virginia Power R Arizona Brewers Helena Brewers Nashville Sounds The Nashville Sounds are a minor league baseball team of the Pacific Coast League. ... The Southern League is a minor league baseball league which operates in the Southern United States. ... Major league affiliations National League (1890–present) Central Division (1994–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 1, 5, 8, 10, 18, 20, 24, 42 Name Cincinnati Reds (1958–present) Cincinnati Redlegs (1953-1958) Cincinnati Reds (1882-1953) Ballpark Great American Ball Park (2003–present) Riverfront Stadium (1970-2002) a. ... This article or section does not adequately cite its references or sources. ... The Pacific Coast League (PCL) is a minor league baseball league operating in the West and Midwest of the United States. ... Major league affiliations National League (1998–present) Central Division (1998–present) Current uniform Retired Numbers 4, 19, 34, 42, 44 Name Milwaukee Brewers (1970–present) Seattle Pilots (1969) Ballpark Miller Park (2001–present) County Stadium (1970-2000) Sicks Stadium (Seattle) (1969) Major league titles World Series titles (0) None... For the band, see 1990s (band). ...

Greer was considered a modern, attractive minor league stadium in its early years and was home to some of the largest crowds in the minor leagues in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Since then it has lost its status as a premier minor league facility and compares very unfavorably with the relatively-luxurious minor league stadiums which have been built in recent years, most notably AutoZone Park in Memphis. In fact, it now falls well below the standards set for a AAA stadium by Organized Baseball, and in recent years the Sounds consistently threatened to move, either to a new stadium in a Nashville suburb or out of the Nashville area entirely. The 1980s refers to the years of and between 1980 and 1989. ... An exterior view of AutoZone Parks main entrance . AutoZone Park is a minor league baseball stadium located in downtown Memphis, Tennessee and the home of the Memphis Redbirds of the Pacific Coast League, the AAA affiliate of the St. ... For other uses, see Memphis (disambiguation). ... Housing subdivision near Union, Kentucky, a suburb of Cincinnati, Ohio. ...

The City of Nashville and the Sounds are working on building a new stadium downtown across the river from Titans Stadium. In April 2007 the city voted down giving the Sounds an extension on their request to find support, so the fate of the new park is in question.

Greer has been the subject of major additions, and even some contraction, over the years and currently seats just over 10,000. At one point the baseball team of Belmont University had expressed an interest in adopting it as its home field after the Sounds left; recently this interest has seemed to wane and the Bruins seem more interested in the construction of an on-campus facility. Belmont University is a private, coeducational, liberal arts university located in Nashville, Tennessee. ... The Universitätscampus Wien, Austria ( details) Campus (plural: campuses) is derived from the (identical) Latin word for field or open space. English gets the words camp and campus from this origin. ...

In the early 1980's, Greer was the home field for the Father Ryan High School football team. Ryan, a Nashville Catholic school, does not have a stadium. In 2006, Ryan and the Sounds signed a two-year contract to return to Greer for the 2006 and 2007 seasons. In the football configuration, the field runs from third base toward right field.

External links

• Herschel Greer Stadium Views - Ball Parks of the Minor Leagues

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