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- The Nashville Stars were a semi-pro and minor league Negro league baseball team in the late 1930s through the early 1950s.
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Jan 13, 2023 · The Stars are deeply rooted in Nashville’s rich baseball history going back to 1860. The team was a semi-professional baseball team in the Negro Leagues from the late 1930s until the early...
Apr 14, 2022 · NASHVILLE — It’s fitting that the Nashville Stars, a team for players ages 10 and under, are named in honor of an old Negro leagues team that played in Music City in the 1930s, ’40s, and ’50s.
Feb 23, 2024 · In 2019, Music City Baseball formed as a group looking to bring an MLB team to Nashville, choosing the same Nashville Stars brand that was used in the Negro Leagues in the 1940s and 1950s as their team name.
Overall, not much has been published about the Stars team. “When the Nashville Stars were in town in the early 50’s, nobody was writing about it,” said local baseball historian Skip Nipper. “The newspapers weren’t covering it sadly because segregation was so prevalent in not only Nashville, but other southern cities.
Apr 15, 2024 · Five years into an effort to bring Major League Baseball to Nashville, Loar is still bullish on the market. He also remains just as bullish on the group’s idea to wrap themselves in the city’s Negro Leagues history and name the club the Nashville Stars. But the group’s original timeline is toast.
Jan 10, 2023 · The Nashville Stars, a hopeful expansion franchise led by a group including former big league pitcher and D-backs GM Dave Stewart, announced Tuesday that Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly...
Jan 13, 2023 · Will Nashville land an MLB expansion franchise? Here are key questions as Music City Baseball tries to envision the Nashville Stars.
