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First Horizon Park, formerly known as First Tennessee Park, is a baseball park in downtown Nashville, Tennessee, United States.The home of the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the International League, it opened on April 17, 2015, and can seat up to 10,000 people.
The Nashville Sounds' mascot is an anthropomorphic rooster named Booster. He is bright red with yellow legs, beak, comb, and palms and red, orange, and yellow tail feathers resembling flames. He wears the same jerseys as the team with the number zero. He made his debut on April 17, 2015, at the Sounds' first game at First Tennessee Park.
First Horizon Park, one of the newest stadiums in Triple-A, opened in 2015. It is the home of the International League's Nashville Sounds. There are 30 stadiums in use by Triple-A Minor League Baseball teams, which are the top affiliates of Major League Baseball clubs. The International League uses 20 stadiums, and the Pacific Coast League uses 10.
After two years of the Sounds lobbying for the new park and threatening to leave town (either for the suburbs or a new city altogether), Mayor Bill Purcell agreed to support preliminary plans for the stadium on October 25, 2005, and the Nashville Metro Council approved the new stadium on February 7, 2006, due in part to the Sounds securing ...
First Horizon Park, located downtown on the site of the former Sulphur Dell, is the second ballpark used by the Nashville Sounds, who relocated from Greer Stadium in 2015. [19] The $91 million stadium has a fixed seating capacity of 8,500 people, but can accommodate up to 10,000 with additional grass berm seating.
The Nashville Sounds are a Minor League Baseball team that has played in Nashville, Tennessee, since 1978. They are named for the city's association with the music industry. The Sounds play their home games at First Horizon Park, which opened in 2015 and is located on the site of the historic Sulphur Dell ballpark.
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 1901 Nashville Baseball Club of the Southern Association. Nashville has been home to Minor League Baseball teams since the late 19th century. 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 from 1885 to 1886 and played their home games at Sulphur Spring Park, later renamed ...