Herschel Greer Stadium is a minor league baseball ballpark located in Nashville, Tennessee on the grounds of Fort Negley, an American Civil War fortification, approximately two miles (three km) south of downtown. Opened in 1978, the stadium was posthumously named for Herschel Lynn Greer, a prominent Nashville businessman and the first president of the Nashville Vols baseball team. It is currently home to the Triple-A Nashville Sounds of the Pacific Coast League (PCL) and can seat 10,052 people.

The stadium is best recognized by its distinctive guitar-shaped scoreboard, which displays the line score across the neck. It has been the site of three minor league All-Star Games, eight no-hit games, including one perfect game, and a 23-inning game which tied the record for the longest game in PCL history. In 1993 and 1994, it hosted the Double-A Southern League’s Nashville Xpress, making it the first ballpark to serve as the home field for two different professional teams since the New York Mets and New York Yankees shared Shea Stadium in 1976.

In recent years, the Sounds have been attempting to work out an agreement with the city in order to build a new ballpark to replace Greer. The aging stadium was not meant to last longer than 30 years. Greer is one of the oldest stadiums used by a Triple-A team, and it now falls well below organized 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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