Editing Nashua, New Hampshire (section)

==Sports==

[[File:Holman Stadium, Nashua NH.jpg|thumb|right|[[Holman Stadium (Nashua)|Holman Stadium]], 2017]]

Nashua has had a series of amateur, semi-professional, and professional baseball teams. The [[Nashua Silver Knights]], part of the Futures Collegiate Baseball League of New England (FCBL), is the city's current team. The [[Nashua Pride]], a [[Canadian-American Association of Professional Baseball|Can-Am]] minor league baseball team, played at [[Holman Stadium (Nashua)|Holman Stadium]] from 1998 through 2008, then changed to the American Defenders of New Hampshire in the 2009 season. The Defenders were evicted from the venue in August 2009, however, because of non-payment of rent, and moved to [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]] to become the [[Pittsfield Colonials]]. Before the Pride, Holman was the home stadium for the independent Nashua Hawks; the AA [[Nashua Pirates]]; the AA Nashua Angels; and the A [[Nashua Dodgers]], the first racially integrated professional baseball team in the 20th century.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.nhcdac.org/news/baseball_MLK2006.asp |title=Don Newcombe diversity dinner speaker Jan. 16 |access-date=2007-10-20 |last=Gray |first=Kevin |date=2005-10-06 |publisher=New Hampshire Cultural Diversity Awareness Council |quote=As members of the Nashua Dodgers, Campanella and Newcombe were the first professional, African-American baseball players to compete on a racially integrated U.S. team in the 20th century. |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071017151708/http://nhcdac.org/news/baseball_MLK2006.asp |archive-date=2007-10-17 }}</ref> After minor league baseball began in Nashua in 1885, the team hosted the [[Nashua Millionaires]] franchise, with the team playing in the [[New England League]] from 1901 to 1933.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.baseball-reference.com/register/team.cgi?city=Nashua&state=NH&country=US|title=Nashua, New Hampshire Encyclopedia &#124; Baseball-Reference.com}}</ref>

In collegiate sports, Nashua is home to the [[Rivier University]] Raiders, who compete in the [[Great Northeast Athletic Conference]] (GNAC).

The [[Spartans Drum and Bugle Corps]] (1997, 1998, 2004, 2007 [[Drum Corps International]] Division II Champions and 2019 Open Class Champions) is based in Nashua.