Sulphur Dell
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Sulphur Dell is the name of a former Minor League Baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee. It was used for baseball for nearly 100 years, from the 1870s until the early 1960s.
It acquired its unique name from being the site of a sulphur spring in the pioneer days. And that unique historical fact was only the beginning. Sulphur Dell was best known for having one of the most significant "terraces" or sloping outfields in baseball history, a steep incline that ran along the entire outfield wall, most dramatically in right and center fields. With a very short right field fence (262 feet down the right field line), right fielders were usually positioned about halfway up the slope.
In his book, Ballparks of North America, Michael Benson expounds at length on the lovable eccentricities of this place. In general, outfielders who had to negotiate this terrain tended not to use the term "lovable". According to many sources, they were more apt to call the ballpark "Suffer Hell".
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