Early baseball in Michigan/Club 24

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Location Michigan
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.

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