Nashville RBI 2007 Sponsors

www.NissanUSA.com

Nissan has demonstrated a commitment to innovation since the company's founding in 1933. Over the last seven years a SHIFT_ has been made. Nissan has nearly doubled the number of models offered and nearly doubled in sales. Nissan continues to move in a positive direction thanks to not only doing things differently, but doing things for the sake of a better driving experience.

Nissan North America oversees the interests of its Tokyo-based parent, Nissan Motor Co., in North America. With four plants in the US (in Tennessee) and Mexico, Nissan North America produces such vehicles as the Xterra SUV, the Altima sedan, and the Frontier pickup. The company then markets, finances, and services its products in Canada, Mexico, and the US and its territories. It also oversees sales of Nissan's luxury Infiniti brand of cars in North America. Through Nissan Forklift Corp., Nissan North America distributes and sells Nissan's electric- and gasoline-powered forklifts. The company was formed in 1990 to coordinate the company's US, Mexican, and Canadian operations.

Lane Motor Museum - http://www.lanemotormuseum.com

LANE MOTOR MUSEUM features a unique collection of mostly European automobiles, housed in a former 132,000 square foot bakery. The majority of our vehicles were built in the 1950s through 1970s although we have some as old as the 1920s and as new as 2000.

You will be introduced to a broad cross-section of vehicles; over 45 marques representing Asia, Europe, and North and South America. Politics, geography, familial relationships, and economics are but some of the factors which have shaped vehicles throughout history. This is a working museum with the goal being to maintain all vehicles in running order.

Nashville Sounds - http://www.nashvillesounds.com

Sounds Bring Baseball Back to Nashville In 1978
After a fifteen-year hiatus, Nashville returned to baseball in 1978 as the Southern League expansion franchise team, the Nashville Sounds. Owner and general manager Larry Schmittou, who had been involved in the Nashville baseball scene for several years as the head coach of the Vanderbilt collegiate squad, was instrumental in the re-emergence of pro baseball in Nashville.

Schmittou employed the city’s entertainment scene into the nickname and country & western stars such as Larry Gatlin, Jerry Reed, Conway Twitty, and Richard Sterben (bass singer of the Oak Ridge Boys) became Sounds stockholders. The club played their home games at a new facility, Herschel Greer Stadium, located south of downtown at the foot of St. Cloud Hill in Fort Negley Park. Fans responded to the return of baseball to the city by flocking to the ballpark. Nashville led the Southern League in attendance in each of their seven seasons as a member of the circuit.