List of Nashville Vols no-hitters

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Tom Rogers pitched a perfect game for the Vols at Sulphur Dell in Nashville on July 11, 1916.

The Nashville Vols were a Minor League Baseball team that played in Nashville, Tennessee, from 1901 to 1963.[1] They were established as charter members of the Southern Association in 1901.[2] Known as the Nashville Baseball Club during their first seven seasons, they became the Nashville Volunteers (regularly shortened to Vols) in 1908.[3] Nashville remained in the Southern Association until it disbanded after the 1961 season.[2] The team sat out the 1962 campaign but returned for a final season in the South Atlantic League in 1963 before ceasing operations altogether.[1]

Over the Vols' 62 seasons, their pitchers threw seven no-hitters, which includes one perfect game.[4] A no-hit game occurs when a pitcher (or pitchers) allows no hits over the course of a game.[5] A perfect game, a much rarer feat, occurs when no batters reach base by a hit or any other means, such as a walk, hit by pitch, or error.[5] The feats were accomplished by a total of seven different pitchers.[4] Four occurred at Nashville's home ballpark, Athletic Park, better known as Sulphur Dell from 1908.[6] Three were pitched in road games. Six occurred while the team was a member of the Southern Association and one as a member of the South Atlantic League.

  1. ^ a b "Nashville, Tennessee Encyclopedia". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved December 2, 2023.
  2. ^ a b Weiss, Bill; Wright, Marshall (2001). "47. 1940 Nashville Vols". Minor League Baseball. Archived from the original on October 12, 2020. Retrieved September 21, 2015.
  3. ^ "'Volunteers' is the New Name for Nashville's Baseball Club". The Nashville American. Nashville. February 29, 1908. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.
  4. ^ a b McGill, Chuck. "Minor League No-Hitters". Baseball-Reference. Sports Reference. Retrieved September 17, 2015.
  5. ^ a b "MLB Miscellany: Rules, Regulations and Statistics". Major League Baseball. Retrieved February 13, 2020.
  6. ^ "Volunteers Will Meet the Barons". The Nashville American. Nashville. May 4, 1908. p. 6 – via Newspapers.com.