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Berkeley ballpark added to National Register

Berkeley Mills Ballpark is now on the National Register of Historic Places. The date on the sign is wrong. The ball field was built in 1949 and the grandstand was completed in 1950.

By Bill Moss, Published: November 27, 2016

Although Hendersonville had its first organized baseball team in 1909 — the short-lived Hendersonville Planets of the Western North Carolina Industrial League — the city’s most durable baseball legacy is the Berkeley Spinners, which organized in 1948 and played through 1966.

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