Early baseball in Michigan/Club 32
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Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1859 |
Modern address | Kalamazoo MI |
City | Kalamazoo |
State | MI |
Country | US |
Nickname | Kalamazoo BBC; Galesburg BBC |
Found by | Peter Morris |
The Kalamazoo BBC is the first club listed in Kalamazoo MI in Peter Morris' Baseball Fever (2003). Galesburg BBC is also listed.
Kalamazoo MI (1860 pop. about 6,000) is about 135 miles W of Detroit and 60 miles NE of South Bend IN
Sources
Peter Morris, Baseball Fever: Early Baseball in Michigan (U of Michigan Press, 2003), page 367.