The Nashville Stars were a semi-pro

Negro league baseball The Negro leagues were United States professional baseball leagues comprising teams of African Americans and, to a lesser extent, Latin Americans. The term may be used broadly to include professional black teams outside the leagues and it may be ...

team in the late 1930s through the early 1950s. The Stars played in the major league

Negro Major League The Negro Major League (NML), also called the Negro Major Baseball League of America, was one of the several Negro baseball leagues created during the time organized baseball was segregated. The NML was organized in 1942 by Abe Saperstein and Sy ...

in 1942 and the Negro Southern League in 1951. They were located in

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, and played their home games at

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. Nashville newspapers from the era indicate the team held membership in the Negro Southern League in 1950 as well.

Revival

In 2019, an investment group, Music City Baseball LLC, announced plans to secure a possible

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or lure an existing team to Nashville that would be called the Nashville Stars in honor of the city's Negro league teams.

References

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