Editing Early baseball in Michigan/Club 8
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|Year=1870 | |Year=1870 | ||
|Date-note=No later than 1870 | |Date-note=No later than 1870 | ||
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|City=St. Joseph | |City=St. Joseph | ||
|State=MI | |State=MI | ||
|Country=US | |Country=US | ||
|Nickname=Mutuals | |Nickname=Mutuals | ||
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|Approved=Yes | |Approved=Yes | ||
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| + | "Previous to 1870, base ball was unknown in the villages of Michigan. . . . | ||
James R. Clark organized a base ball club in St. Joseph previous to the organization of the [local rival] Benton Harbor nine [in 1870]. . . . The St. Joseph club was named the Mutuals, in imitation of the famous Mutuals of New York. . . . . In St. Joseph the ball ground was located where the Central school building now [1915] stands. | James R. Clark organized a base ball club in St. Joseph previous to the organization of the [local rival] Benton Harbor nine [in 1870]. . . . The St. Joseph club was named the Mutuals, in imitation of the famous Mutuals of New York. . . . . In St. Joseph the ball ground was located where the Central school building now [1915] stands. | ||
| - | + | "In Benton Harbor the games were played on the Morton ball ground on Morton Hill." | |
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| - | + | James Pender, History of Benton Harbor (Braun, Chicago, 1915), pages 72-73. Accessed 2/28/2010 via Google Books search ("history of benton harbor"). | |
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| + | St. Joseph is on Lake Michigan in the southwestern corner of the state; it is about 35 miles N of South Bend IN and about 45 miles W of Kalamazoo MI. It is about 2 miles from Benton Harbor. | ||
