There have been 37 baseball players in the major leagues who were born in Nashville or Davidson County.  Jeff Bennett (currently Atlanta Braves) and R. A. Dickey (currently Seattle Mariners) are the only 2 active players from the area to have played with a big league team:

Name	Birthplace	Birth Date	Rookie Year	Retired
Ben Chapman	Nashville	December 25, 1908	1930	1946
Ben Harris	Donelson	December 17, 1889	1914	1915
Bill McTigue	Nashville	January 3, 1891	1911	1916
Bob Fisher	Nashville	November 3, 1886	1912	1919
Bob Montgomery	Nashville	April 16, 1944	1970	1979
Bob Tillman	Nashville	March 24, 1937	1962	1970
Charlie Harding	Nashville	January 1, 1891	1913	1913
Charlie Moran	Nashville	February 22, 1878	1903	1908
Charlie Petty	Nashville	June 28, 1866	1889	1894
Clarence Jonnard	Nashville	November 23, 1897	1920	1935
Claude Jonnard	Nashville	November 23, 1897	1921	1929
Clyde McCullough	Nashville	March 4, 1917	1940	1956
Foster Castleman	Nashville	January 1, 1931	1954	1958
Fred Toney	Nashville	December 11, 1888	1911	1923
George Archie	Nashville	April 27, 1914	1938	1946
Jeff Bennett	Donelson	June 10, 1980	2004	Active
Jerry Bell	Madison	October 6, 1947	1971	1974
Jim Gilliam	Nashville	October 17, 1928	1953	1966
Jim Kirby	Nashville	May 5, 1923	1949	1949
Jim Pruett	Nashville	December 16, 1917	1944	1945
Jim Turner	Antioch	August 6, 1903	1937	1945
Joe Burke	Nashville	December 7, 1867	1890	1891
Johnny Beazley	Nashville	May 25, 1918	1941	1949
Johnny Gill	Nashville	March 27, 1905	1927	1936
Lefty Davis	Nashville	February 4, 1875	1901	1907
Lefty Sullivan	Nashville	September 7, 1916	1939	1939
Michael Coleman	Nashville	August 16, 1975	1997	2001
Mickey Kreitner	Nashville	October 9, 1922	1943	1944
Newt Fisher	Nashville	June 28, 1871	1898	1898
Noodles Hahn	Nashville	April 29, 1879	1899	1906
R. A. Dickey	Nashville	October 29, 1974	2001	Active
Ray Hamrick	Nashville	August 1, 1921	1943	1944
Roy Cullenbine	Nashville	October 18, 1913	1938	1947
Slick Castleman	Donelson	September 8, 1913	1934	1939
Tiny Graham	Nashville	September 9, 1892	1914	1914
Tom Bolton	Nashville	May 6, 1962	1987	1994
Wayne Garland	Nashville	October 26, 1950	1973	1981

 (Source: baseball-almanac.com)

Turkey Stearnes, who was born in Nashville on May 8, 1901 and was elected to the Hall of Fame in 2000 by the Veterans Committee, played for the following Negro League teams: Nashville Elite Giants (1920), Montgomery Grey Sox (1921), Memphis Red Sox (1922), Detroit Stars (1923-1931, 1933, 1937), New York Lincoln Giants (1930), Kansas City Monarchs (1931, 1934, 1938-1941), Cole's American Giants (1932-1935), Philadelphia Stars (1936), Chicago American Giants (1938), Detroit Black Sox (1942), Toledo Cubs (1945).

Lee MacPhail, former president of the American League, was born in Nashville on October 25, 1917 and spent time in the front office of the New York Yankees and Baltimore Orioles.  He was also an assistant to Commissioner of Baseball William Eckert.  In 1998 MacPhail was elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame where he and his father Larry MacPhail, who was elected in 1978, are the only father/son members.  MacPhail resides in Redding, Connecticut.

Chuck Meriwether was born in Nashville on June 20, 1956 and is currently a major league umpire.  Meriwether attended Father Ryan High School and has worked the All Star Game (1996, 2002), Divsion Series (1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002, 2004), NLCS (2003), and the 2004 World Series.  He umpired in the Midwest League (1979), Eastern League (1980-1982), Pacific Coast League (1983-1985), and American Association (1986-1992) before joining the major leagues.  He was a member of the crew that worked David Cone's perfect game (July 18, 1999).