Early baseball in Michigan/Club 23
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Spread of baseball: Home -> Michigan -> Early baseball in Michigan/Club 23 |
Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1870 |
Modern address | Escanaba MI |
City | Escanaba |
State | MI |
Country | US |
Nickname | Escanaba BBC |
Found by | Peter Morris |
The Escanaba BBC was the first mentioned for Delta County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Escanaba MI (current pop. about 13,000) is on Lake Michigan in the southern ("banana belt" area of MI's Upper Peninsula and about 110 miles NE of Green Bay WI.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.