List of Nashville Vols Opening Day starting pitchers

[5] The team sat out the 1962 campaign but returned for a final season in the South Atlantic League in 1963 before ceasing operations altogether.

[9] Their first Opening Day game held at home was against the Birmingham Barons at Athletic Park on April 10, 1907.

At Sulphur Dell, they had a record of 11 wins, 10 losses, and 6 no decisions, including 1 tie, in 27 Opening Day starts.

Vols pitchers had a record of 17 wins, 13 losses, and 5 no decisions in 35 Opening Day starts on the road.

Six Nashville Opening Day starters also started Opening Day games in Major League Baseball: Wiley Piatt for the Philadelphia Phillies (1899);[14] George McQuillan for Philadelphia (1908 and 1910) and the Pittsburgh Pirates (1915);[15][16][17] Waite Hoyt for the New York Yankees (1927), Brooklyn Dodgers (1932), and Pittsburgh (1935);[18][19][20] Red Lucas for the Cincinnati Reds (1929 and 1930);[21][22] Russ Meyer for the Chicago Cubs (1948);[23] and Jack Harshman for the Baltimore Orioles (1959).

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Opening Day ceremonies at Sulphur Dell in Nashville, Tennessee , on April 15, 1909
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Art Herman , the Opening Day starting pitcher in 1903 and 1905, is one of seven Nashville pitchers with two Opening Day starts.
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Wiley Piatt started Opening Day for the National League's Philadelphia Phillies in 1899 before starting for Nashville in 1904.
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Tom Rogers pitched a perfect game for the Vols on July 11, 1916, after starting Opening Day. [ 1 ]
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Waite Hoyt , the Vols' 1918 starter, was inducted in the National Baseball Hall of Fame in 1969. [ 2 ]
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George McQuillan made Opening Day starts for the National League's Philadelphia Phillies (1908 and 1910) and Pittsburgh Pirates (1915) before doing so for Nashville in 1923.
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Jack Harshman , the 1953 starter, won that season's Southern Association Most Valuable Player Award . [ 3 ] He also started on Opening Day for the American League 's Baltimore Orioles in 1959.
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Aubrey Gatewood made the start in the Vols' final Opening Day game in 1963.