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A little after one o’clock in the afternoon of Wednesday, July 28, 1926, Judge Kenesaw Mountain Landis rose in the banquet hall of the Cleveland Hotel to address the most influential citizens of the small town of Spartanburg, South Carolina, the Hub City of the Piedmont, well known as a railway hub and, increasingly, as one of the busiest textile mill centers in the United States.

Duncan Park stadium was constructed in 1926 and is listed on the U. S. Park Service's National Register of Historic Places. It is situated on land donated to the City of Spartanburg, South Carolina, by the family of Major David R. Duncan in 1923.