Nestled just east of Knoxville, Tennessee is the small town of Kodak. It is home to the Tennessee Smokies and named for the Mountains to the southeast along the North Carolina and Tennessee border. The team itself has been in one league or another for the better part of one hundred years. Since 1972, the team has been in the AA Southern League.
From 1980 to 2002, the then-Knoxville based team was a part of the Blue Jays organization and called itself the Knoxville Jays. In 1993 the team changed its name to the Smokies and took the Tennessee moniker.