Herschel Greer Stadium is a minor league baseball park in Nashville,
Tennessee, approximately two miles (3 km) south of downtown. Opened in
1978, the stadium was named for Herschel Lynn Greer, a prominent
Nashville businessman and the first president of the Nashville Vols
minor league baseball team. It is home to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds
of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and can seat 10,300 people. It has
been the site of three minor league all-star games, eight no-hit games,
including one perfect game, and a 24-inning game which tied the record
for the longest game in PCL history. In 1993 and 1994, it also served
as the home ballpark for the Double-A Southern League's Nashville
Xpress. Greer is one of the oldest stadiums used by a Triple-A team,
and it now falls well below professional baseball's standards for a
stadium at that class level. It has been the subject of numerous
upgrades and repairs to keep it functioning long enough for the Sounds
to secure a deal for a new ballpark.
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1865:
U.S. Army soldiers cornered and fatally shot John Wilkes Booth , the
assassin of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln, in rural northern Virginia,
ending a twelve-day manhunt.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wilkes_Booth>
1944:
U.S. Navy submarines began attacks on Japan's Take Ichi convoy as it
sailed in waters between Taiwan and the Philippines, eventually sinking
four vessels and killing over 4,000 troops.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Take_Ichi_convoy>
1956:
The SS Ideal X, the world's first container ship, set sail from Port
Newark in New Jersey, beginning the international standardization of
shipping containers.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/container_ship>
1989:
An editorial was published in the People's Daily denouncing the recent
unrest in Tiananmen Square, which would remain contentious through the
remainder of the protests.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/People%27s_Daily_editorial_of_April_26>
2002:
Expelled student Robert Steinhäuser murdered 16 people and wounded
seven others before committing suicide at the Gutenberg-Gymnasium
Erfurt in Erfurt, Germany.
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erfurt_massacre>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
xiphias (n):
The swordfish
<http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/xiphias>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If you spend your whole life waiting for the storm, you'll never enjoy
the sunshine.
--Morris West
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