1908 Nashville Vols season
| 1908 Nashville Vols | ||
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| Southern Association champions | ||
Team photo | ||
| League | Southern Association | |
| Ballpark | Sulphur Dell | |
| City | Nashville, Tennessee | |
| Record | 75–56 (.573) | |
| League place | 1st | |
| President | Ferdinand E. Kuhn | |
| Manager | Bill Bernhard | |
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The 1908 Nashville Vols season was the 15th season of minor league baseball in Nashville, Tennessee, and the Nashville Vols' 8th season in the Southern Association. The Vols finished the previous season in last place, but this year won the league pennant, by defeating he New Orleans Pelicans 1-0 on the last day of the season in a game dubbed by Grantland Rice "The Greatest Game Ever Played In Dixie."
This is also the season Rice dubbed the ballpark Sulphur Dell. The team's player-manager was Bill Bernhard. The team featured just two players from Tennessee: Pryor McElveen and Hub Perdue. First baseman Jake Daubert led the league in home runs with six.