Early baseball in South Carolina/Club 16

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Location	South Carolina
Year	1874
Modern address	Newberry SC
City	Newberry
State	SC
Nickname	Prosperity
Found by	Bruce Allardice

“It is believed that one of the earliest games [of baseball] was played in Cokesbury, near Greenwood, in 1873. A Prosperity club, near Newberry, was organized the following year.” Thomas K. Perry, Textile League Baseball: South Carolina’s Mill Teams, 1880-1955 (2004), p. 6.

Newberry SC (1880 pop. about 2300) is about 40 miles NW of Columbia SC.

Sources

Thomas K. Perry, Textile League Baseball: South Carolina’s Mill Teams, 1880-1955 (2004), p. 6.