Wilson Park

Tom Wilson Park opened in 1929 in Nashville's Trimble Bottom neighborhood, built by businessman Thomas T. Wilson to house his Nashville Elite Giants, making Wilson the first African American to own a ballpark in the South. In May 1930 it hosted what was reported as Nashville's first night baseball game, a doubleheader between the Elite Giants and the Kansas City Monarchs. The park also hosted Nashville Vols spring training sessions that brought Babe Ruth, Lou Gehrig, and Roy Campanella to the site before Wilson ended baseball operations there in 1946.