34;The Greatest Game Ever Played in Dixie34;: The Nashville Vols, Their 1908 Season, and the Championship Game

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In 1908 baseball was once the one game that mattered within the South. Without a major league team within the region, rivalries between Southern Association cities such as Atlanta, Birmingham, Memphis, and New Orleans were heated. This season, on the other hand, no city was once as baseball-crazed as Nashville, whose Vols had been league doormat in 1907.

After an unpromising start, the Nashville club clawed its way into contention all the way through the month of July, rising into the higher division, then into a battle for first. Local interest intensified, as the competitive fire of Nashville fans was once stoked by sharp-tongued columnist Grantland Rice and the city’s three day by day newspapers. By the point the Vols met the New Orleans Pelicans for a season-ending series, and the championship, the city was once gripped by a pennant fever that shut down the industrial district. Nearly 13,000 people thronged the Nashville ballpark, Sulphur Dell, for the third and deciding contest. What they saw was once described by Rice as “the greatest game ever played in Dixie.”

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