Skip Nipper
/in /by adminSkip Nipper was founder and president of the Grantland Rice-Fred Russell Nashville Chapter of the Society for American Baseball Research. He also served on the board and was a longtime member of the Nashville Old Timers Baseball Association. He was a contributing author to 10 SABR books and Baseball in Nashville, published by Arcadia Publishing in 2007. He worked closely with the Nashville Sounds to correctly identify images and descriptions placed throughout First Horizon Park. He was a historical adviser for the initiative to bring major-league baseball to Nashville. A 1972 graduate of Memphis State University, Skip was a sales representative for 40 years for New Era Cap Co., the official supplier of headwear to the major and minor leagues. Skip and his wife, Sheila, resided in Mt. Juliet, Tennessee. Together, they had seven children and 17 grandchildren, and along with their dogs, Sully Dell and Baseball Annie, they all loved baseball.
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