Nashville punished, a cautionary tale for Birmingham
David Sher's ComebackTown Click here to sign up for newsletter. (Opt out at any time) I'm sometimes criticized for comparing Birmingham to Nashvill...
David Sher's ComebackTown Click here to sign up for newsletter. (Opt out at any time) I'm sometimes criticized for comparing Birmingham to Nashville. But in the ‘50′s and ‘60′s, when I was growing up, Nashville was a smaller city than Birmingham. My dad used to take me to Rickwood Field to watch the Birmingham Barons play baseball with the Nashville Vols. So my friends and I considered Nashville the competition. But in 1962 the voters in Nashville and Davidson County voted to create a metropolitan government .