The day will begin at 9:00 AM with a Major League Baseball Play Ball clinic for area youth. An official commemoration of the Centennial will follow the clinic at 11:00 AM. Finally, to conclude the day the Spartanburg Peaches and the Greenwood Flying Monkeys of the summer collegiate wooden bat Blue Ridge League will play a regular season game at 1:00 PM.
July 11th Duncan Park Centennial Celebration
Dr. Edwin C. Epps•July 9, 2026•2 min read•0 views
The day will begin at 9:00 AM with a Major League Baseball Play Ball clinic for area youth. An official commemoration of the Centennial will follow the clinic at 11:00 AM. Finally, to conclude the day the Spartanburg Peaches and the Greenwood Flying Monkeys of the summer collegiate wooden bat Blue Ridge League will play a regular season game at 1:00 PM.
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By the time this post appears, the official City of Spartanburg Centennial Celebration of Duncan Park Stadium will be but a day or two away. The day will begin at 9:00 AM with a Major League Baseball Play Ball clinic for area youth. As of this writing, 70 young players have registered for this well-known and crowd-pleasing event, where they will learn the fundamentals of the game and have a good deal of fun as well. Instructors will include current and former players and coaches. Co-sponsored by the City Department of Parks, Recreation, and Special Events and the Youth Sports Bureau, Play Ball clinics have been held in Spartanburg before and are always popular occasions. Additional information can be found online, in the pages of The Spartanburg Herald-Journal, and by contacting Parks and Recreation Director Kim Brown at (864) 562-4059.
An official commemoration of the Centennial will follow the clinic at 11:00 AM. There will be brief remarks by Mayor Jerome Rice and others recognizing the legacy of the stadium, its home teams and traditional rivals, and special happenings and mileposts at the venue.
Finally, to conclude the day the Spartanburg Peaches and the Greenwood Flying Monkeys of the summer collegiate wooden bat Blue Ridge League will play a regular season game at 1:00 PM. Peaches coach Henry Lech is also Athletic Director of Spartanburg American Legion Post 28, which plays its home games at Duncan Park. The Peaches home field is the old Textile League field at Inman Mills, one of a number of old mill village fields which still survive and which are themselves monuments to the history of local baseball. Coach Lech encourages local fans to support real baseball from a time before it was “all about the money.” Complete information about the Blue Ridge League, its teams, and a season schedule can be found at https://www.blueridgeleague.com/schedule.
Dr. Edwin C. Epps is a retired educator with more than forty years' experience in public school classrooms... He is the author of Literary South Carolina (Hub City Press, 2004) and a proud member of Phi Beta Kappa who believes in the value of the humanities in a rapidly changing world.
Summer has arrived at Duncan Park Stadium: American Legion Post 28’s baseball season is well underway. This year the Post will sponsor both a Junior (players born on or after January 1, 2009) and a Senior team (players born on or after January 1, 2007), and as usual its home games will be played at the historic ballpark which opened in July 1926.
