Sulphur Dell
in Nashville, United StatesCategory: Attraction
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Sulphur Dell was a minor league baseball park in Nashville, Tennessee. Originally known as Sulphur Springs Ball Park and later Athletic Park, it was used for baseball for nearly 100 years, from 1870 to 1963. Its longest tenant was the Southern Association's Nashville Vols, who played there from 1901 to 1963. The ballpark, demolished in 1969, was located in the block bounded by present-day Jackson Street, Fourth Avenue North, Harrison Street, and Fifth Avenue North. First Tennessee Park, a new ballpark which opened in 2015, was built for the Nashville Sounds Triple-A team on the site of the original ballpark.Sulphur Dell was originally situated in the northeastern corner of the block with home plate facing southwest. Prior to the 1927 season, the entire ballpark was demolished and rebuilt in the southeastern corner with home plate facing northeast. The ballpark's best-known features, which were born of this realignment, were its short distance to the right field wall (262 ft (80 m)) and its significant "terrace" or sloping outfield: a steep incline that ran along the entire outfield wall, most dramatically in right and center fields.
