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 […]
February 21, 2024 – When we imagine going to a baseball game, we think of a number of things. The grass. The dirt. The smell of ballpark food. The camaraderie with fellow fans. The sounds of the organ playing music, the vendors shouting “Peanuts, get your peanuts here!”, the crack of the bats and cheers […]
February 14, 2024 – “The cities that are performing at the top are really where jobs, wages and the high-tech sector are growing.” That comment from the Milken Institute’s latest “Best Performing Cities” report emphasizes the strength of a select group of cities, including Nashville. Our city earned a place among the top tier of cities […]
Nashville, TN (February 7, 2024) – Baseball has been on full display in Music City recently, featuring one of its most prominent voices: Negro Leagues Baseball Museum president and Nashville Stars Board Member Bob Kendrick. Kendrick was on hand on behalf of the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum, which was recognized as one of the inaugural recipients […]
January 31, 2024 – Less than 200 miles from the Negro Leagues Baseball Museum in Kansas City, League 42 in Wichita featured a statue of Jackie Robinson, who integrated Major League Baseball in 1947 as the first Black player to break the color barrier. Last week, the life-size bronze statue of the Hall of Fame infielder was cut […]
January 24, 2024 – Innovation and excellence have been constant themes for Nashville as the prime destination for health care firms. That reputation continues to grow thanks to two major expansions: an announcement of the first school of global health in the United States, and an elevated partnership between a pair of cancer research organizations […]