October 23, 2024 – This fall in Nashville is presenting pretty afternoons for golf, nice mornings for fishing, and plenty of exciting baseball, all of which Texas Rangers Baseball Club manager and Nashville Stars Baseball Advisor Bruce Bochy is enjoying. But he’d rather be somewhere else. As the Los Angeles Dodgers and the New York Yankees begin their 12th World Series […]
October 2, 2024 – Major League Baseball has supported Stand Up to Cancer and its programs for more than 15 years, and one of our own advisors is taking his own stand. After losing his father to cancer 10 years ago, Nashville Stars Music Industry Advisor Mitchell Tenpenny launched The 10Penny Fund, which invests in sustainable […]
September 18, 2024 – Bottom of the 10th. Game tied. Runners in scoring position. And coming to the plate is the Captain. It’s a moment that kids have staged on the sandlot, in school hallways, and in their dreams for more than a century. It’s the hero moment when all comes together, the game rests […]
August 28, 2024 – In a career of baseball highlights and successes, Barry Zito points to one October night on the mound in St. Louis as his best MLB moment…and for him, it was about redemption. It was October 19, 2012. Game 5 of the NLCS. The Cardinals were up 3 games to 1 in […]
July 10, 2024 – From sporting events to business trips, concerts to holiday travel — like the 4th of July celebration last week in Music City, which welcomed a record 355,000 visitors — and other fun trips with family and friends, the appeal is clear: Travelers from around the world want to be in Nashville. And they’re […]
June 26, 2024 – When your childhood nickname is Baby Fernando Valenzuela, you know that you’re always going to be connected to baseball. When you have the opportunity to design apparel for Nike that bears the Jordan name, you know you’re working in the big leagues. And when you get the call to help create the […]
June 5, 2024 – Major League Baseball (MLB) has received accolades for its recent actions to embrace the history of the Negro Leagues, most recently with last week’s announcement that MLB has integrated Negro Leagues players and their statistics into its own historical records. This follows last month’s news that the league announced a joint program with […]
May 1, 2024 – Commercials, jersey patches, signs on stadium walls. We’ve all seen the various ways in which brands — across numerous industries — leverage the popularity of America’s favorite pastime to showcase their value to fans. Last fall, Rolling Stone demonstrated the key reasons why Major League Baseball (MLB)presents marketing opportunities to brands […]
April 24, 2024 – Nearly three years after finalizing the largest economic development deal in Nashville’s history, Oracle chairman and chief technology officer Larry Ellison hit a towering home run for Nashville with his announcement on Tuesday afternoon: Oracle will be moving its global headquarters to Music City. Ellison broke the news at an Oracle-hosted health care industry […]
April 10, 2024 – It was October 20, 1990. Hootie & the Blowfish was playing a set and started the opening chords of “Let Her Cry.” But they had a problem – there was no singer. Darius Rucker had left the mic. He hadn’t gotten sick. He hadn’t forgotten the words. Something bigger had happened. […]
March 20, 2024 – For most country music stars, the trip to Nashville begins with a dream to write music and perform on the stage of the Grand Ole Opry. For Nashville Stars Music Industry Advisor Julia Cole, the dream was certainly to write, but it wasn’t music that was on her mind. “I came […]
March 6, 2024 – What a welcome it was for passengers flying into Nashville International Airport last weekend when they were greeted with a 30-minute surprise performance by Keith Urban. That kind of unique welcome is one of the reasons why fans have been choosing Nashville as their top travel destination. In addition to the music […]
February 28, 2024 – The Nashville Stars are looking back to history to shape the future of baseball. In their efforts to bring Major League Baseball into Nashville, the Stars are building their brand to bring the city’s Negro Leagues history — from the team who took the field in the 1940s and 1950s — […]
February 28, 2024 – With No. 1 hits like “Drunk Me,” “Truth about You” and “At the End of the Bar,” multi-faceted country music entertainer, singer, songwriter, producer and performer Mitchell Tenpenny would be hard pressed to pick his favorite. But ask him about his favorite position to play on the baseball field and the […]
