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Bailey Memorial Stadium

stadium in Clinton, South Carolina

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionAug 30, 2026
Entity authorityQ4848378 ↗
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Bailey Memorial Stadium is a 6,500-seat multi-purpose stadium in Clinton, South Carolina. It is home to the Presbyterian College Blue Hose football team. The facility opened in 2002, replacing Old Bailey Stadium. The playing surface is named Claude Crocker Field. The facility features a multi-level press box, a spacious field house and concession stands for home and visiting fans.

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“Bailey Memorial Stadium” enters the record as stadium in Clinton, South Carolina. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Bailey, Memorial and Stadium can confirm, complicate or overturn.

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This entry incorporates text from “Bailey Memorial Stadium” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.