Early baseball in Michigan/Club 2
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Location | Michigan |
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Year | 1862 |
Month | 4 |
Date | 2 |
Modern address | Three Rivers MI |
City | Three Rivers |
State | MI |
Country | US |
"April 2 (1862) - First base ball club organized."
Three Rivers MI (current pop. about 7800) is in southwestern MI, about 30 miles S of Kalamazoo and about 256 miles N of the Indiana border..
Sources
Three Rivers City Directories, 1928, page 19.