Columbia's first professional team was known as the Senators and played in the short-lived first South Atlantic League season in 1892.
The city did not have a professional baseball team again until 1903 when the Columbia Skyscrapers played a non-league season.
In 1904, the Skyscrapers joined the new South Atlantic League and changed their name to the Columbia Gamecocks midway through the season, playing under that moniker for three and a half years.
In 1911, the club was finally named the Columbia Comers which was short for Commissioners.
In 1911, the club was finally named the Comers, and would eventually win four league titles.