January 29, 2025 – On the heels of Nashville’s 40th annual celebration of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Day, several members of the Nashville Stars Baseball Club headed west to Kansas City to visit the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum and get the tour from President and Nashville Stars Board Member Bob Kendrick. “Any time you come here, it’s just magical,” […]
January 23, 2025 – The Stars look good on you, Donnie Baseball! Nashville Stars Baseball Advisor and Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly was the featured speaker at the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association’s annual banquet last Sunday. He made sure to catch up with our team for our latest “hat swap” as we launch […]
January 23, 2025 – The Stars look good on you, Donnie Baseball! Nashville Stars Baseball Advisor and Toronto Blue Jays bench coach Don Mattingly was the featured speaker at the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association’s annual banquet last Sunday. He made sure to catch up with our team for our latest “hat swap” as we launch […]
January 15, 2025 – A walk down most streets in the heart of Nashville reveals what many of us already know: Nashville is an amazing place to live and to visit. Middle Tennessee also carries immense appeal in the corporate segment, as Music City — and the state of Tennessee as a whole — are among […]
December 18, 2024 – Nashville is a championship-level city, on and off the field. And its appeal for hosting a major sports championship on the field — welcoming thousands of fans to spend time at the game and around the city — is on display once again. The NCAA Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) announced last week that Nashville […]
November 6, 2024 – “We are the ship … all else, the sea.” Quoting the description of the Negro Leagues delivered by Rube Foster, recognized by the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum as the “father of Black baseball, ”Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president and Nashville Stars Board Member Bob Kendrick applauded the impact of the first Negro Leagues […]
November 3, 2024 – If you are a teenager or a young adult, or have a friend or family member who is, there’s a good chance that you were glued to the World Series. And you have plenty of company. The first two games of the World Series registered a 93% increase in viewership within the 18-34 […]
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 […]