The Nashville Vols were a Minor League Baseball team that played in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1901 to 1963. Known as the Nashville Baseball Club during their first seven seasons, they became the Nashville Volunteers in 1908 in reference to Tennessee's nickname, "The Volunteer State". The Vols played their home games at Athletic Park, which had been home to the city's professional baseball teams since 1885 and was renamed Sulphur Dell in 1908.
The 1901 Nashville Baseball Club won the first Southern Association pennant.
The 1908 Nashville Vols won the Southern Association pennant on the last day of the season.
Tom Rogers pitched a perfect game for the Vols at Sulphur Dell on July 11, 1916.
The Sulphur Dell grandstand and infield in 1927
Sulphur Dell, formerly known as Sulphur Spring Park and Athletic Park, was a baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee, United States. It was located just north of the Tennessee State Capitol building in the block bounded by modern-day Jackson Street, Fourth Avenue North, Harrison Street, and Fifth Avenue North. The ballpark was home to the city's minor league baseball teams from 1885 to 1963. The facility was demolished in 1969.
Sulphur Dell, with its famous right field terrace
The Nashville Vols playing at Sulphur Dell in 1908
Construction of the new grandstand in 1927
A baseball game at Sulphur Dell in the 1950s