Touring the Minors: Columbia

Segra Park Steve Sypa Home to roughly 132,000 residents, Columbia, is the capital and second-largest city in South Carolina. Built at the confluence of the Saluda and Broad Rivers, which merge and form the Congaree River, Columbia is known for being “Famously Hot”, as its tourism bureau says, thanks to its elevation and location. Originally chartered by the South Carolina Legislature in 1786, the city boasts a great deal of history; Columbia’s First Baptist Church hosted the South Carolina Secession Convention in 1860, effectively marking the beginning the Civil War.

Organized baseball has been present in the city since the late 1800s. Along with the Charleston Sea Gulls, Charlotte Hornets,…