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2017 Junior State Tournament Spartanburg American Legion Post 28 Commander Carroll Owings 1st Vice Commander John J. Barron 2nd Vice Commander Leah White Chaplin Alfred (Joe) Belville Adjutant Jim Harbison Sergeant-At-Arms Leonard Zawacki Service Officer Charles Landen Athletic Director John J. Barron Historian/Museum Curator Ed Y. Hall Judge Advocate Dwight Patterson Honor Guard Commander Jim Harbison American Legion Auxiliary Unit 28 President Barbara Wright Vice President Geneva Padgett Secretary Martha Badger Historian Lesa LePage Chaplain Elizabeth Pearson Parliamentarian Frieda Davison Treasurer Carolyn Harbison Girls State Chair Geneva Padgett Veterans’ Affairs Chair Geneva Padgett 1st Sergeant-At-Arms Doris Rice American Legion Post 28 Commander Carroll H. Owings Welcome to Spartanburg’s Duncan Park Baseball Field and the American Legion Post 28 Baseball series for 2017! Welcome to Spartanburg’s Duncan Park Baseball Field and the American Legion Baseball Junior State Championship! Our setting of historical Duncan Park, completed in 1926, is one of the oldest wooden grandstand stadiums in this area, and one of the last standing in America. For over 90 years, competitive teams have made use of this facility. We are very proud to be a vital part of Spartanburg County history. Our American Legion Baseball program has been active for 83 years, and we are proud to be one of the most successful in the state. We have hosted the state tournament more than 15 times, and our teams have won 8 state championships and one National Championship. American Legion Post 28 will always promote good sportsmanship, and we expect our players, coaches, and fans of our 2017 baseball program to display the pride and dignity that is so needed in all aspects of our society today. Enjoy your time with us at Duncan Park! John J Barron 1st Vice Commander Athletic Director American Legion baseball teams are formed in hometowns throughout the country. Baseball players from several high schools converge into one Legion team for the summer. It is the best well organized high level community based baseball around. Spartanburg area Legion baseball started when the Textile Leagues were King in the South and grew when Duncan Park was home to minor league teams - the Peaches and Phillies. Spartanburg Post 28 is the longest playing baseball team in Duncan Park (1933) and still calls the stadium home. Fans in Spartanburg, Inman, Greer, Union and Gaffney take hometown pride in their Legion teams and support them all the way. There is a lot of baseball to play in just a short time; and the Legion season is fast approaching its end with town rivalry intensifying on baseball diamonds throughout South Carolina and the Nation. Only a committed team pulling in the same direction and inculcated by the Code of Sportsmanship will be successful. The American Legion is a nonprofit organization and depends on community support to cover the costs for baseball players 13 to 19 years of age to play the game. This is made possible through our many generous contributors. Post 28 Legionnaires and the City of Spartanburg supported this program by devoting time and resources to this worthwhile program during home games to prepare the field, run the concession stand, sell tickets at the gate, run the scoreboard, announce the games and help in general to setup for the game. Appreciation is deserved and I give my thanks to each one of them who help to put on this Junior American Legion Baseball State Tournament. “For God and Country” American Legion Baseball Purpose and Scope To inculcate in youth a better understanding of the American way of life and to promote the principles of 100 percent Americanism. To instill in the nation’s youth a sincere desire to develop within themselves a feeling of citizenship, sportsmanship, loyalty and team spirit. To aid in the improvement and development of the physical fitness of our country’s youth. To build for the nation’s future through our youth. Code of Sportsmanship I will: Keep the rules Keep faith with my teammates Keep my temper Keep myself fit Keep a stout heart in defeat Keep my pride under in victory Keep a sound soul, a clean mind, and a healthy body “You spend a good piece of your life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.” - Jim Bouton Duncan Park By Frieda Patrick Davison The origins of Duncan Park can be traced back to 1874 when Major David Robinette Duncan purchased 300 acres of land “off Union Road” and built his estate home in the 1890s. Major Duncan was born 27 September 1836 in Mecklenburg Co., Va., a son of David and Alice Duncan. His father was a professor at Randolph-Macon College and a native of Ireland. Major Duncan was the fifth in order of birth in a family of six sons and two daughters. He graduated from Randolph-Macon College in 1855 and came to Spartanburg, where his father then held a professorship at Wofford College. He “read” for the law under the office of Oliver Evans Edwards and was admitted to the bar in 1857. He began his law practice with John Bomar Cleveland and for most of his law career was partner of Cotesworth Pinckney Sanders. He also taught school at Odd Fellows High School in Spartanburg while he was studying law. Photo courtesy of the Duncan Estate On 9 July 1856, David married Virginia Nelson, daughter of William and Martha Nelson of Mecklenburg Co., Va. At the beginning of the Civil War, David joined the 13th SC Infantry Regiment, rising through the ranks until he was promoted to Major in 1864. He was captured at the Battle of Petersburg in 1865. At the close of the war, he returned to Spartanburg and resumed his law practice. In 1865, he was elected to the state legislature, where he served in the House (1865-66; 1870-72) and then the Senate (1872-76). In 1880, Major Duncan was elected solicitor for the seventh judicial circuit and served in this capacity for eight years. Major Duncan was a member of the boards of trustees for Wofford and Converse Colleges, and a board member of Spartan Mills. He served as the president of the Spartanburg-Asheville Railroad Co., was an officer in the Central Methodist church, and a leading Mason and Knight Templar. He lived in the home he had built until his death in 1902. His wife, Virginia, followed him in death in 1910. Both are buried in Oakwood Cemetery in Spartanburg. The family remained in the home until 1937. The original 4,581 square-foot Duncan Estate home remains nestled on four acres and now serves as a venue for events and functions. In 1923, Major Duncan’s four children donated the land surrounding the home to the City of Spartanburg. Those signing the deed of gift were: William Nelson Duncan, Mary Elizabeth Duncan Garlington, Carrie B. Duncan Epps, and Martha Nelson Duncan Wannamaker. In the deed, the Duncan family specified that eleven acres of land should remain public for all to enjoy – the land now known as Duncan Park. Although the plat of the land grant is complex, the City Council finally defined the city-owned property as generally being bounded by the middle of the roads that ultimately circled the lake and named Park Drive. There were other public parks being developed in the county at the time and it seems that the city fathers of the day did not begin to address Duncan Park until early 1925. Originally calling the stadium an “athletic field”, the city provided the excavation and a parking area (while also considering whether or not to pave St. John St.). In January 1926, the council awarded a contract for a grandstand to cost $30,946 and one month later ordered seats for the grandstand from Vogel & Son. The city extended Caulder Avenue by the baseball field to South Converse and paved it in April 1926. That spring, they also created a “public Comfort Station” in the Middle of Morgan Square with a bandstand above it! The Duncan Park stadium was designed by Spartanburg architect J. Frank Collins with Ollie Anderson, chief of the SALLY League umpires, designing the actual playing field. Supposedly the field was laid out so that “the sun would never beam down on the spectators.” The Park hosted its first game on 8 July 1926 with the Spartanburg Spartans defeating the Macon Peaches 5-1. In 1929, the city authorized the Buffalo National Baseball Club to use Duncan Park Stadium for training. The first miniature golf course in Spartanburg was also authorized that year, provided that “no Sunday playing would be allowed.” American Legion Post 28 began playing baseball in Duncan Park in 1933. Still playing there today, they are the oldest tenant of the ballpark. The “World Series” of the American Legion baseball was held in Duncan Park in 1936 and nearly 21,000 fans attended the final game when Spartanburg defeated Los Angeles. In 1937, the New York Yankees, featuring Joe DiMaggio and Lou Gehrig, played an exhibition game in Duncan Park while on their way to New York from spring training. When Shibe Park (renamed the Connie Mack Stadium in 1953) in Philadelphia was demolished in 1970, many of those stadium seats came to Duncan Park. Duncan Park was also the host of the 1938 American Legion World Series. In 1946, Spartanburg had a professional baseball franchise in the Tri-State League and became home to the “Spartanburg Peaches”. They were a Class B Tri-State farm team of the St.
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