The Sumter Indians was a minor league baseball team, based in Sumter, South Carolina, as a member of the Western Carolinas League.
The team was formed when the Cleveland Indians relocated their Class-A affiliate, the Monroe Indians, to Sumter in 1970 and Sumter, was home to professional baseball for the first time in 20 years with the arrival of the club.
They were replaced in the league in 1972, when the Sumter Astros and Monroe Pirates were replaced by the Charlotte Twins and the Gastonia Pirates in the six team league.
[2][1] Sumner teams played at Riley Park.
It is still in use today as home to the University of South Carolina Sumter Fire Ants and Morris College Hornet baseball teams.