Early baseball in Michigan/Club 29
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Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1865 |
Modern address | Lansing MI |
City | Lansing |
State | MI |
Country | US |
Nickname | Capital Club of Lansing |
Found by | Peter Morris |
The Capital Club of Lansing is the first club listed in Ingham County MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003). Also listed are the Sheridan Club of Mason, the Star Club of Agricultural College, and Lansing Lower Town Base Ball Club.
Laansing MI (1860 pop. about 3,000; 1870 pop. about 5,200) is about 85 miles NW of Detroit and about 60 miles E of Grand Rapids.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.