Home Runs & Home Teams

As Tennesseeans, baseball is in our DNA, and although the game is common to us, it has never remained the same during anyone’s lifetime.

• Who were among the first to play baseball in Tennessee?
• How did 31 Tennessee towns come to host a MiLB team?
• What makes a day at a Tennessee ballpark an iconic experience?

Home Runs & Home Teams provides an overview of the national pastime as it has played out in the Volunteer State. For every story included in the exhibition, there are hundreds more–from players to pennants, from bat makers to bat boys–that could have been shared. So as you “round the bases,” think about your connections to the game, your ties to the past. What does baseball mean to you and to your community? What baseball stories should libraries and museums preserve to share with future Tennesseans?

Let’s play ball!