[3] He wanted to send Nashville's existing Southern League franchise to Evansville to continue as the Triplets at Double-A.

[3] The city, led by Mayor Joe W. Davis, agreed to build a brand new 10,000-seat multipurpose stadium which lured the franchise to town where it began play in 1985 as the Huntsville Stars.

[3] The Triple-A Sounds carried on the history of the Double-A team that preceded it, while the Stars were established as an entirely new franchise.

[3] Schmittou and several other Sounds shareholders owned the Stars, while Don Mincher, a Huntsville native and 12-year veteran of the major leagues, operated the team as its General Manager.

Manager Brad Fischer guided the franchise to win the First Half Western Division title in their inaugural season.

[7] On August 3, 1992, pitchers Dana Allison, Roger Smithberg, and Todd Revering combined to pitch a 10-inning, 1–0 no-hitter against Birmingham.

[8] The Chattanooga Lookouts won both halves of the 1992 season, but Huntsville qualified for the postseason with the second-best overall record in the Western Division.

They won the second half before beating the Mobile BayBears, 3–2, to win the Western Division before ultimately losing the championship to the Greenville Braves, 3–2.

The 1998 team qualified for the playoffs with the second-best record behind Mobile, which had won both halves, but was swept, 3–0, by the BayBears in the Western Division finals.

The group waded through countless offers to buy the Stars looking to find the right investors who would commit to keeping the team in the Tennessee Valley.

[12] In 2003, the first-half champion Stars won the Western Division versus Birmingham, 3–2, but lost in the Southern League championship series to Carolina, 3–2.

[5] Missing the playoffs in 2004 and 2005, they made another championship attempt in 2006, winning the second half, defeating Chattanooga, 3–0, for the Northern Division title, but losing the league crown to the Montgomery Biscuits, 3–1.

[5] On August 2, 2012, Jimmy Nelson, Dan Merklinger, R. J. Seidel, Darren Byrd, and Brandon Kintzler pitched a combined no-hitter against Chattanooga, a 3–1 win.

[14] Prior to the 2014 season, an ownership group based in Biloxi, Mississippi, led by Ken Young purchased the team with the intention of relocating the club.

In their 30th and final season in Huntsville, the Stars won the first half title, but lost in the Northern Division series to Chattanooga, 3–2.

[53] Don Mincher, general manager from 1985 to 2000 and part owner from 1994 to 2000,[54] and Rosemary Hovatter, who worked as an administrative assistant and box office employee from 1985 to 2014,[55] were inducted in the inaugural Hall of Fame Class in 2014.

[53] Second baseman/shortstop Scott Brosius, inducted in 2015, played for the Stars in 1989 and 1990,[56] and led the Southern League in his second season with 162 hits, 274 total bases, and 39 doubles, earning him a spot on the 1990 postseason all-star team.