Nashville Sports History: Stories from the Stands (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781596298200)

Enjoy this all-access pass to more than a century of sports in the Music City packed into one exciting volume Watch from the bleachers as Ty Cobb practices with the Vanderbilt football team and Babe Ruth blasts home runs out of the old Sulphur Dell Ball Park, or go all the way back to 1843 and witness what was then the richest horse race in the world at the Nashville Race Course. These are but a few of the stories compiled by local award-winning sportswriter Bill Traughber in this one-of-a-kind collection no sports fan should be without. Included are excerpts from local sportswriters like the legendary Grantland Rice and over forty historic photographs from the playing field.

Author: Bill Traughber
ISBN-10: 1596298200
ISBN-13: 9781596298200
Publisher: History Press
Language: English
Published: 02/19/2010
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.50lbs
Size: 8.80h x 6.00w x 0.40d