Editor’s note: This is part of a continuing series of columns, stories and photos by Greenville County Historical Society examining the history of Greenville and the Upstate.
Before baseball’s Shoeless Joe Jackson became famous with the Chicago White Sox, he belonged to Brandon Mill in West Greenville.
On Saturday afternoons, families from the mill village gathered around the ballfield. Workers crowded the upper floor windows to watch him bat. He was one of their own…