Herschel Greer Stadium

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Herschel Greer Stadium is a minor league baseball stadium 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.

Greer, as it is familiarly called, was built in the late 1970s 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.

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 Sounds plan to leave Greer Stadium after the completion of the 2007 season. A new stadium, First Tennessee Field, is being constructed downtown. The fate of Greer stadium, post-Sounds, is not yet known.

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.

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