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Greenwood Pirates South Atlantic League

Greenwood Pirates

June 22, 2019

The Greenwood Pirates, who toiled in the Class A South Atlantic League from 1981 to 1983, were the last professional baseball team to ever make their home in this South Carolina city. Greenwood’s Legion Field previously was home to the Western Carolina League’s Greenwood Braves from 1968 to 1979. The Pirates’ 1983 total attendance of 8,345 fans for a 72-game home schedule ranks as the worst single-season box office in South Atlantic League’s five-decade history. The franchise moved to Macon, Georgia prior to the 1984 season.

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1977 Greenwood Braves baseball program from the Western Carolinas League

Greenwood Braves

November 28, 2013

The Greenwood Braves were a South Carolina-based Class A farm club of the Atlanta Braves from 1968 to 1979 in the Western Carolinas League.  The Braves won the league championship six times in twelve seasons, although part of this success is due to the fact that the struggling WCL sometimes played with as few as four active teams during the 1970’s.

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