Greer Stadium, June 2014
NASHVILLE, Tn.—The guitar shaped electronic scoreboard always struck a chord with me.
It was a sweat-crawling evening in 1993 when I saw my first game at Herschel Greer Stadium, the home of the Class AAA Nashville Sounds. The 53-feet tall, 60-feet wide guitar scoreboard offered an immediate sense of where you were.
Music City. Big dreams.
The big ax in center field would be like having a handgun shaped scoreboard in Chicago. Or a parking meter.
On my first visit to Greer I heard about Conway Twitty being a part owner of the Sounds and that resonated with me. I liked [...]
Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey and his kids in NY subway (Courtesy of R.A. Dickey)
May 29, 2012—
The honest sports memoir floats in rarefied air.
The majority of sports remembrances flutter and roll like tumbleweed into a moonstruck horizon. But New York Mets pitcher R.A. Dickey has written “Wherever I Wind Up: My Quest For Truth, Authenticity and the Perfect Knuckleball (Blue Rider Press, $26.95), one of the most soul-searching memoirs of any recent genre’.
Robert Allen “R.A.” Dickey was born in 1974 in Nashville, Tenn., where he still lives with [...]
