Sound and Solid – That’s Nashville!
Named for the city’s association with the music industry, the team has played in 4,581 regular season games and compiled a win-loss record of 2,379 – 2,202 as of the end of the 2009 season. In 1980, the team was recognized as one of the 100 greatest Minor League Baseball teams of all time. Of the three nine-inning perfect games in the history of the Pacific Coast League, two have been pitched by members of the Nashville Sounds.
The Sounds play at Herschel Greer Stadium, which was named for Herschel Lynn Greer, Sr.(1906-1976). Born in Dickson County, Tennessee, Greer was an avid baseball fan and one of the organizers of Vols, Inc., a corporation organized to keep baseball in Nashville. He headed the drive to sell stock in Vols, Inc. (in which there were 4876 stockholders). He served as the first president of the Nashville Vols, which was successful in retaining a baseball club in Nashville for several years. In 1978, the city of Nashville and Sounds president Larry Schmittou posthumously honored Mr. Greer by naming the home of the Nashville Sounds “Herschel Greer Stadium.”
