Early baseball in South Carolina/Club 21

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Location South Carolina
Year 1869
Modern address Spartanburg SC
City Spartanburg
State SC
Nickname Athletics
Found by Bruce Allardice

Bob A. Nestor, Baseball in Greenville and Spartanburg, page 7, says Wofford College played “Upstate’s first recorded baseball game in the 1869-70 student year,” beating a team called the Athletics 55-51.

Spartanburg SC (1870 pop. about 1100) is in the NE corner of SC and about 75 miles SW of Charlotte NC.

Sources

Bob A. Nestor, Baseball in Greenville and Spartanburg, page 7

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