Nashville, Tennessee, has hosted professional baseball teams since the late 19th century at five ballparks around the city. The first was Sulphur Spring Park, later renamed Athletic Park but best known as Sulphur Dell, which was the home of the city's minor league teams from 1885 to 1963. It was located just north of the Tennessee State Capitol in downtown Nashville. The facility was demolished in 1969. A number of Negro league teams competed at Sulphur Dell as well as at Greenwood Park, located across from Greenwood Cemetery, and Tom Wilson Park, north of the Nashville Fairgrounds, both of which were in Nashville's black communities and have since been demolished. Herschel Greer Stadium was built in 1978 on the grounds of Fort Negley just south of downtown. Greer served as the home of the Nashville Sounds for 37 seasons until they left for the new First Horizon Park, then known as First Tennessee Park, located at the site of Sulphur Dell, in 2015. Greer was demolished in 2019. Baseball parks Sulphur Dell Previously: Sulphur Spring Park (c. 1850s–1860s) Athletic Park (1870–1907) Home of: Nashville Americans – Southern League (1885–1886) Nashville Blues – Southern League (1887) Nashville Tigers – Southern League (1893–1894) Nashville Seraphs – Southern League (1895) Nashville Centennials – Central League (1897) Nashville Vols – Southern Association (1901–1961) / South Atlantic League (1963) Nashville Standard Giants/Elite Giants – independent (1920–1928) Nashville Stars – Negro Major League (1942) Nashville Black Vols/Cubs – Negro Southern League (1945–1951) Location: The block bounded by present-day Jackson Street, Fourth Avenue North, Harrison Street, and Fifth Avenue North, just north of the Tennessee State Capitol; 900 Fifth Avenue North () Orientation: Home plate in northeast corner of block facing southwest (1884–1926) Home plate in southwest corner of block facing northeast (1927–1963) Opened: c. 1850s; grandstand erected in 1885 Closed: 1963 Demolished: 1969 Sulphur Spring Park, as Sulphur Dell was first known, was located in a bottomland, or dell, which was used by early settlers for trading and watering at a natural sulphur spring. In the 1850s, a portion of the land was re-purposed for baseball. By 1870, the baseball grounds were referred to as "Athletic Park". In 1885, a wooden grandstand was built at the corner of modern-day Fourth Avenue North and Jackson Street to accommodate fans of the Nashville Americans, who were charter members of the original Southern League. Several other minor league teams