Nashville Cubs

Nashville Cubs
Information
League	Negro Southern League
Location	Nashville, Tennessee
Ballpark	Sulphur Dell
Established	1945
Disbanded	1951
Nickname(s)	Nashville Black Vols (1945) Nashville Cubs (1946–1949, 1951) Louisville-Nashville Cubs (1950)

The Nashville Cubs were a Negro league baseball team that played in the minor league Negro Southern League from 1945 to 1951.[1] The club was originally called the Nashville Black Vols, named after the all-white Nashville Vols of the minor league Southern Association, but changed to the Cubs moniker in 1946.[2] They were located in Nashville, Tennessee, for the majority of their existence, but split part of the 1950 season between Nashville and Louisville, Kentucky, where they played as the Louisville Cubs.[1] While in Nashville, they played their home games at Sulphur Dell.[3] The Black Vols finished the 1945 season in fourth place with an 18–16 (.529) record.[1] The 1949 team won the second half of the season.[1]

References

1. "Negro Southern League (1920–1951)" (PDF). Center for Negro League Baseball Research. January 1, 2010. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
2. Tedesco, Marie. "Negro Leagues Baseball". The Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture. Tennessee Historical Society, Nashville, Tennessee. Retrieved January 31, 2015.
3. Nipper, Skip (December 12, 2013). "Baseball Shrines". 262 Down Right. Archived from the original on February 2, 2015. Retrieved February 1, 2015.