August 21, 2025 – The conversation of Major League Baseball expansion has been in the national spotlight this past week. “I think the owners realize there is demand for Major League Baseball in a lot of great cities, and we have an opportunity to do something good around that expansion process,” Commissioner Rob Manfred said during the MLB Little League […]
August 7, 2025 – “We need an MLB team in Tennessee, and I’m really hopeful that’s coming.” Tennessee Governor Bill Lee said that at a visit to Covenant Health Park for a recent Knoxville Smokies Baseball game. Joined by Knoxville Mayor Indya Kincannon, Knox County Mayor Glenn Jacobs, Chattanooga Mayor Tim Kelly, and Knoxville Smokies owner, University of Tennessee, Knoxville President, and Nashville Stars […]
July 31, 2025 – On August 2, baseball meets motorsports. The MLB Speedway Classic presented byBuildSubmarines.comatBristol Motor Speedway and Dragwaypits theAtlanta Bravesagainst theCincinnati Reds— the two teams closest in proximity to downtown Nashville — on Saturday night in a matchup set to shatter the league’s all-time single-game attendance record. Major League Baseball (MLB)announced on Monday […]
May 28, 2025 – When fans attend a sporting event, they hope that the experience will be memorable. Lately, the memories that fans have enjoyed have increasingly extended in venues outside the field or arena. One such venue sits just 240 miles southeast of our office, with an otherwise unassuming name were it not for […]
May 21, 2025 – The revenue charts. The corporate arrivals. The popularity. Regardless of the metric, Nashville keeps growing. Growth is also on the mind of Kelly King, PwC’s Nashville office managing partner. King moved PwC into the Nashville Yards neighborhood this spring, nearly tripling the firm’s office space in Music City. With the company more than doubling its […]
April 30, 2025 – Snoop Dogg has been everywhere, from virtually every Olympics venue to TV broadcasts around the world. Country music has been everywhere too, as its distinctive music and performers continue to mix well with other music genres. So Snoop Dogg in Music City makes perfect sense. The latest example of this blending of styles […]
April 23, 2025 – To say that it was a big week for professional sports in Nashville is an understatement. The annual Sports Business Journal Creative Artists Agency (CAA) World Congress of Sports — the largest and most prestigious sports business conference in North America — made Nashville the center of professional sports this week. The Nashville Stars Baseball […]
April 16, 2025 – Torpedo bats have become the hot topic across Major League Baseball (MLB) — and rightly so — for being more tailored to hitters’ swing paths than the bats which fans are more accustomed to seeing. But those aren’t the only bats that baseball fans in Middle Tennessee are excited about. Old Hickory Bat Company, […]
April 10, 2025 – Last month, Negro Leagues Baseball Museum President and Nashville Stars Board Member Bob Kendrick joined Nashville resident and New York Times-bestselling author Andrew Maraniss for an episode of Maraniss’ “On the Ball” podcast. Throughout the episode, Kendrick highlighted the benefits of bringing a Major League Baseball (MLB) franchise to Nashville, as well as the rich history throughout every […]
April 3, 2025 – The Nashville Stars welcomed friends, advisors, supporters and area baseball fans to their Opening Day party on a day when Major League Baseball hit a home run with its Opening Day viewership. The television ratings on ESPN were the league’s best Opening Day audience for a full (non-COVID) season since 2018, with the Brewers-Yankees matchup […]
For Immediate Release MEDIA CONTACTS: John Crisp – Crisp Communications [email protected] 615-457-1479 Chris Bacon – Music City Baseball [email protected] 815-823-4138 March 25, 2025 – Lincoln Property Company (Lincoln), a global full-service real estate services firm, and Music City Baseball, LLC, through its Stars Development Group, LLC, announced today they have entered into an agreement to secure and obtain entitlements for a […]
March 12, 2025 – What a response we’ve had to the launch of our new Nashville Stars hat by New Era! We caught up with WKRN/News 2 (ABC) Chief Meteorologist Danielle Breezy in the studio and swapped hats with one of our city’s most trusted weather experts! Be sure to stay tuned to our Instagram, X, Facebook and TikTok, where we’ll be […]
March 5, 2025 – It’s fitting that our New Era hats are representing one of the best cities in the United States, acknowledged as such most recently by both Tripadvisor and Resonance, the latter a national real estate and tourism advisory firm. Nashville finished No. 6 in the Best of the Best Destinations list on Tripadvisor’s Travelers’ Choice Awards, ahigher mark than […]
February 27, 2025 – Bob Kendrick’s hat swap is live, and we’ve begun our week of promotions leading into the launch of the hats on Monday, March 3, at 12:00 p.m. CT!Share our content — on Instagram, X, Facebook and TikTok — with your friends, families and networks, and engage with the posts so we can build this up before our big release!