CSU coach's house hit by fire
The home of Charleston Southern coach Karl Kuhn suffered extensive damage earlier this week in a fire caused by lightning strike. There were no reports of injuries. A GoFundMe account was established, but the account was not accepting donations as of 8:30 p.m. Friday. Kuhn was pitching coach at CSU last season, but was promoted after Marc MacMillan was let go.
Joanna park restoration sought
While doing research on the campaign to restore Capital City Stadium in Columbia, I came across a similar effort - The Joanna Project - to renovate the Joanna textile mill baseball park in Laurens County. Textile league baseball was pretty much dead by the time I was growing up in Greenville County in the early 1960s, but textile athletics were an integral part of life for mill workers and their families for decades.
Many mills had gymnasiums and/or baseball fields to provide a recreational outlet and source of community pride for their employees. Lots of such facilities are now gone, but the group in Laurens County is trying to preserve the Joanna ballpark.
I got to play at Monaghan, Brandon and maybe a couple of other mill parks as a pre-teen one summer while on a Greenville YMCA team coached by Lint Holtzendorf. It was the only time I was part of an organized team outside of church league. I hit .083 (1-for-12), a very accurate gauge of my athletic prowess and a defining reason why I wrote about sports and didn't play them.
Commitments
* Zach Faulkner, C, Greenville, to USC Salkehatchie.* Jalen German, RHP/IF, Trinity Episcopal (Va.). to Coastal Carolina, 2026.
* Devin Mitchell, OF, Florence-Darlington Tech, to College of Charleston, 2026.
* Logan Newcomb, OF/P, P27 Academy, to Coastal Carolina, 2026.
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