Reminder: Southern Association Conference, April 12th

Committee member Skip Nipper sends the following pertaining to the upcoming Southern Association Conference:

Each year the Friends of Rickwood, an organization that maintains Rickwood Field in Birmingham, Alabama, holds a conference that alternates between Birmingham and another former Southern Association city. This year, the Fifth Annual Southern Association conference will be held in Nashville, TN.

The event will begin on Friday night with the Nashville Sounds' PCL home opener vs. Iowa on April 11th at 7:00 PM. On Saturday, April 12th, the conference will take place at the Metro Nashville Archives in Green Hills after beginning with coffee and donuts at the old Sulphur Dell site in downtown Nashville.

Presentations by baseball historians Bill Traughber, Kevin McCann, Skip Nipper, and Derby Gisclair will be a part of the program, along with a panel discussion with former Nashville Vols players.The cost to attend is $50.00; for more information and a schedule of events contact David Brewer, Friends of Rickwood, at david@rickwood.com or Skip Nipper at skip@sulphurdell.com