[13] They recorded their first home victory the next day, defeating Chattanooga, 4–0, behind the pitching of War Sanders, who allowed only three hits in the complete game shutout.

[28] Some 12,000 spectators witnessed Vols pitcher Carl Sitton hurl a three-hit, 1–0 shutout, giving Nashville their third Southern Association pennant with a 75–56 record.

[29][30] Their lone run came in the seventh inning when Doc Wiseman drove in Ed Hurlburt from third base with a sharply-hit bouncer over the second baseman.

[18][35] Under the leadership of manager Roy Ellam, the Vols captured their fourth league pennant with an 84–54 record, nine games ahead of second-place New Orleans.

[52][53] The circuit abandoned the split-season format in 1935 and instead adopted the Shaughnessy playoff system in which the top four teams at the end of the season participated in a tournament to determine a champion.

[57] Nashville entered into a new affiliation with the National League's Cincinnati Reds in 1936, enticed by their larger roster of younger players who could help the Vols.

[58] After losing the first game of the first round, Nashville won two-in-a-row to take control of the series, but two consecutive losses to Birmingham resulted in a 3–2 elimination.

[70] Up three games to two, the Vols lost two-in-a-row versus the Texas League champion Fort Worth Cats to lose the series, 4–3.

[78] Nashville's Arnie Moser paced the league with 216 hits, John Mihalic drew a league-best 127 walks, and Gus Dugas tied for the lead with 22 home runs.

[86] In the deciding game, the Vols trailed 2–0 before tieing the contest in the ninth inning, and George Jeffcoat scored the winning run in the tenth.

[63] Outfielder Ed Sauer, the league leader in batting average (.368), doubles (51), runs (113), and stolen bases (30), was chosen for the MVP Award.

[100][101] They won their sixth consecutive playoff championship by defeating first-half pennant winners Memphis, 4–3, after coming back from a 3–1 series deficit.

[103] Having returned to a four-team postseason format, the Vols won their semifinal bout with New Orleans, 4–1,[104] but were defeated for the league championship by Mobile, 4–2.

[21] Rollie Hemsley, Gilbert's successor,[21] managed the 1949 squad to win their eighth league flag with a first-place 95–57 season, four-and-a-half games over Birmingham.

[144] Outfielder Stan Palys, who paced the league with a .359 batting average and 116 runs along with a second-best 112 RBI and 93 walks,[145] was selected for the Southern Association MVP Award.

[150] Having reached a point where he could no longer afford to run the Volunteers, Murray offered to sell the team, Sulphur Dell, and the real estate it occupied for $200,000 to a local citizens group, which would operate the club beginning in 1959.

[159] The league was the only professional circuit that had not integrated, and it had a few member clubs that operated in cities with segregation laws that banned black players or mixed-race athletic competitions.

[167] The league planned to operate as a reduced six-team circuit in 1962 following the subtraction of the Atlanta, Birmingham, Mobile, and Shreveport franchises and the addition of teams in Columbus, Georgia, and Evansville, Indiana.

[169] When the Philadelphia Phillies refused to partner with Chattanooga in the loop, minor league president George Trautman ceased his efforts to locate an affiliate for Nashville.

[170] Instead, Sulphur Dell played host to Negro league, collegiate, and amateur baseball games,[171] as well as other events such as concerts,[172] rodeos,[173] professional wrestling,[174] and revivals.

[181] The Volunteers closed out the season on September 8 with a pair of victories by winning both games of a double bill over the Lynchburg White Sox, 6–3 and 2–1, at Sulphur Dell.

[183] Poor attendance and financial problems, including no cash assets and a nearly $22,000 debt incurred over the season, resulted in the team's board of directors voting unanimously to surrender the franchise to the league on September 16.

[187] Meeting with little success, the land was sold to a group of investors in 1972, who gradually filled in the property with dirt and rock but had no plans to develop.

[192] Located in Sulphur Springs Bottom, north of the Tennessee State Capitol building, the land had hitherto been little more than solely a baseball field and required improvements to make it suitable for professional teams.

[199] After the 1926 season, the entire ballpark was demolished and rebuilt as a concrete-and-steel structure with home plate on the west side, facing northeast.

From these, Nashville Banner sportswriters Fred Russell and George K. Leonard created two rosters of the all-time greatest players, covering the periods of 1901 to 1919 and 1920 to 1963.

Outfielder Kiki Cuyler, who was selected by the Veterans Committee in 1968,[203] played for the Vols in 1923 before being purchased by the Pittsburgh Pirates near the season's end.

[205] Pitcher Waite Hoyt, selected by the Veterans Committee in 1969,[206] was on loan to Nashville from the New York Giants in 1918 when he was recalled to the majors mid-season.

[212] Newt Fisher (1901 and 1902), Bill Bernhard (1908), Roy Ellam (1916), and Larry Gilbert (1940, 1943, 1948, and 1949) managed the Vols to win the Southern Association pennant.

[80] Gilbert (1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, and 1944), Rollie Hemsley (1949), Don Osborn (1950), and Hugh Poland (1953) led the team to win Southern Association playoff championships.