The Nashville Sounds are a minor league baseball team of the Pacific
Coast League and the Triple-A affiliate of the Milwaukee Brewers. They
are located in Nashville, Tennessee, and are named for the city's
association with the music industry. The team plays its home games at
Herschel Greer Stadium, which opened in 1978 and holds 10,300 fans.
Established as a Double-A team in 1978, the Sounds moved up to the
Triple-A level in 1985. The team has served as a farm club for six major
league franchises. A total of 22 managers have helmed the club and its
over 950 players. As of the completion of the 2011 season, the team had
played in 4,869 regular season games and compiled a win–loss record
of 2,527–2,342. The team fielded in 1980 was recognized as one of the
100 greatest minor league teams of all time. The Sounds won the PCL
Championship in 2005, sweeping the Tacoma Rainiers in three games in the
final series. Previous league titles won by the team are the Southern
League title in 1979, as the Double-A affiliate of the Cincinnati Reds,
and again in 1982 as the Double-A affiliate of the New York Yankees.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nashville_Sounds>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1795:
French Revolutionary Wars: Off the coast of Brittany, a British
Royal Navy battle squadron commanded by William Cornwallis fended off a
numerically superior French Navy battlefleet.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornwallis%27s_Retreat>
1846:
Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was crowned Pius IX, and he
would become the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the
Catholic Church.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_IX>
1904:
Irish author James Joyce began his relationship with Nora
Barnacle, and subsequently used the date to set the actions for his 1922
novel Ulysses.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Joyce>
1958:
Imre Nagy and other leaders of the failed Hungarian Revolution
of 1956 were executed following secret trials.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Imre_Nagy>
1960:
The thriller/horror film Psycho, directed by Alfred Hitchcock
and based on a novel of the same name by Robert Bloch, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psycho_(film)>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
abeyance:
1. (law) Expectancy; condition of being undetermined; undetermined
ownership.
2. Suspension; temporary suppression.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/abeyance>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
If others have their will Ann hath a way. in
--Ulysses
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Ulysses_(novel)>