Editing Conway Twitty (section)

===Baseball===
[[File:Conway Twitty Nashville Sounds first pitch April 26, 1978.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.2|Twitty throwing out the first pitch at the first [[Nashville Sounds]] game on April 26, 1978]]
Twitty also played baseball, his second passion. He received an offer to play with the Philadelphia Phillies after high school, but he was drafted into the [[U.S. Army]] before he could sign the contract. Twitty joined the entrepreneur [[Larry Schmittou]] and other country musicians, such as [[Cal Smith]] and [[Jerry Reed]] in 1977 as investors in the [[Nashville Sounds]], a [[Minor League Baseball]] team of the [[Double-A (baseball)|Double-A]] [[Southern League (1964–present)|Southern League]], which began playing in 1978.<ref>{{Citation |last=Woody |first=Larry |title=Schmittou: A Grand Slam in Baseball, Business, and Life |pages=64–65 |year=1996 |place=Nashville |publisher=Eggmann |isbn=1886371334}}</ref> Twitty threw out the ceremonial first pitch at the team's inaugural home opener at [[Herschel Greer Stadium]] on April 26, 1978.<ref>{{Cite web |date=April 4, 2007 |title=Sounds in 1978 |url=http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=DN&Date=20070404&Category=SPORTS04&ArtNo=704040811&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=5 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://archive.today/20150415152217/http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Site=DN&Date=20070404&Category=SPORTS04&ArtNo=704040811&Ref=PH&Params=Itemnr=5 |archive-date=April 15, 2015 |access-date=April 15, 2015 |location=Nashville |newspaper=[[The Tennessean]]}}</ref> Twitty would also host celebrity softball games for charity, frequently playing against a team put together by [[Barbara Mandrell]].<ref>{{Cite web |title=Nashville Then: 1979 Fan Fair |url=https://www.tennessean.com/picture-gallery/entertainment/music/cma-music-festival/2019/06/05/nashville-then-1979-fan-fair-cma-fest-conway-twitty-loretta-lynn/1338559001/ |access-date=2021-11-09 |website=www.tennessean.com |language=en}}</ref>