Blackjack76 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 I'm in a heated battle with a self-proclaimed Minor League Baseball fanatic, yet he swears Nashville has only had the Sounds in town. I beg to differ, in that I remember a "Nashville Express" for a couple of years.I cannot find any Express logos to prove my point? Does any here have it? If so, please post. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroseed Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Well, I just went searching on LogoServer, who I would expect to have their logo if the team ever existed, and there's no listing of a Nashville Express team. So... I'd venture to say your friend is right. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scooter13 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Actually, there is a Nashville Xpress at LogoServer.Com. Here is the link. You will have to scroll down. Detroit Dragons - 2010 ULL Gait Cup ChampionsDetroit Cougars - 2010 and 2011 WAFA Wills Cup Champions Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nitroseed Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Ah, the dreaded "extreme" spelling of Express! Foiled again. I stand corrected. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DGivens87 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Yeah there was a team called the Xpress, they were a AA team, I forgot who they were affiliated with, but I believe this occurred in the mid-90s. A large cheese pizza, just for me.New England's source for soccer newsAnd hey, I made it to ESPN! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fuzzywarble Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 There was an Xpress team for a while in the mid-90s, but then they moved to Puerto Rico. I think they were an independent league team. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oz615 Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Yeah there was a team called the Xpress, they were a AA team, I forgot who they were affiliated with, but I believe this occurred in the mid-90s. they was affiliated w/ the Twins Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Blackjack76 Posted October 21, 2004 Author Share Posted October 21, 2004 Can anyone see that logo clearly? Is that a train shooting out through the bottom of the N? Interesting, I'd like to take a crack at recreating that, if I had a better picture. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 In 1993, to accomodate the addition of the Rockies and the Marlins to the National League, the International League also expanded to Charlotte and Durham. The AA Southern League team in Charlotte had to move and was bought by Saints owner Tom Benson to move to New Orleans. However, the Denver Zephyrs also had to move to accomodate the Rockies and chose New Orleans. As a AAA team, the Zephyrs had priority. This left the AA team without a place to play. Springfield, MO wanted them, but only when they finished building a stadium a few years later. Larry Schmittou, owner of the Nashville Sounds, offered his stadium. The Xpress played in Nashville, sharing the stadium with the Sounds for at least two years. After that they spent some time in Wilmington, NC as the Port City Roosters. They have since found a home in Alabama as the Mobile BayBears. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kess Posted October 21, 2004 Share Posted October 21, 2004 Wasn't it Dennis Bastien that owned that Port City Roosters/Mobile Bay Bears franchise? That was one of my hometown's many failed attempts to bring in Double-A ball. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsenterprise Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 Nashville XPress jersey: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
newsenterprise Posted October 23, 2004 Share Posted October 23, 2004 1. For two seasons in the early 1990s, Greer Stadium hosted two teams. The former Charlotte Orioles of the Southern League moved in and became known as the Xpress; they left in 1995 to become the Port City Roosters. - From: http://members.aol.com/charliezeb/stadiums/nashvill.htm2. Home team: Nashville Sounds, Southern League (1978-84), American Association (1985-97), Pacific Coast League (1998-present); Nashville Xpress, Southern League (1993-94) - From: http://members.aol.com/charliezeb/stadiums/nashvill.htm3. Over the early ?90s, Nashville became a solid member of the American Association and set their all-time attendance mark when 605,122 fans came out to Greer Stadium in 1990. The Sounds switched affiliations again in 1993, this time becoming the top farm club of the Chicago White Sox. In their first year with the Sox, the Sounds won an Eastern Division crown and continued to enjoy excellent attendance, drawing over 400,000 fans for the fifth consecutive year. The 1993 season also brought two additions to the Greer Stadium landscape: the signature, guitar-shaped scoreboard and a second professional team. Following the ?92 campaign, Charlotte moved up to the Triple-A level and when a proposed transfer of the Double-A franchise to New Orleans was blocked shortly before the season began, the Southern League suddenly had a homeless club. Sounds owner Larry Schmittou offered the use of Greer Stadium for the 1993 season. The Nashville Xpress -- a Twins affiliate -- would schedule home games during Sounds road trips, offering pro ball on a daily basis to local fans. The Double-A Xpress won the first half in the West, but fell to eventual SL champion Birmingham in the playoff opener, while the Sounds went on to the American Association championship series before falling to Iowa in extra innings in Game 7. The Xpress were back for one more season in 1994 before relocating to Wilmington, N.C. for the 1995 season. The ?94 Southern League campaign brought perhaps the most famous visitor to Greer Stadium -- Birmingham outfielder Michael Jordan, who was the talk of minor league baseball during his one-year retirement from the Chicago Bulls, made several appearances in Nashville. On the Triple-A front, the Sounds experience great success during their five-year affiliation with the White Sox, winning a pair of Eastern Division crowns and appearing in the 1994 American Association championship (lost to Indianapolis). Fans were provided the opportunity to watch future major-league stars such as Magglio Ordonez, Ray Durham, and James Baldwin, while many of the players who would go on to make up the 2000 AL West champion White Sox fine-tuned their skills at Greer Stadium. - From: http://www.nashvillesounds.com/clubhouse/history.asp Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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