Nashville Athletic Club
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The Nashville Athletic Club (NAC) was a sports club for young men founded in Nashville, Tennessee in 1884.[1] The NAC was responsible for helping popularize the sports of baseball, football, basketball, athletics, gymnastics and swimming in the Nashville area. The NAC also featured a swimming pool, a gymnasium, Turkish and Russian baths and choice exercise equipment.[2] It was based for some time at 520 Commerce Street in downtown Nashville.[3]
The NAC originally had the only regulation size baseball diamond in Nashville located at Sulpher Springs Bottom (later called Athletic Park, then Sulphur Dell).[4]