Early baseball in Michigan/Club 24
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Spread of baseball: Home -> Michigan -> Early baseball in Michigan/Club 24 |
Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1866 |
Modern address | Olivet MI |
City | Olivet |
State | MI |
Country | US |
Nickname | Olivet BBC |
Found by | Peter Morris |
The Olivet BBC is the first mentioned for Eaton County in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003).
Olivet MI (current pop. about 1,750) is about 100 mile E of Detroit and about 15 miles NE of Battle Creek MI.
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 366.