Early baseball in Michigan/Club 12

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Location	Michigan
Year	1867
Note on date	No later than fall 1867
City	Farmington
State	MI
Country	US
Nickname	Agrestic BBC

From an online account of the Detroit-area club later called the Eclipse Club:

"The Northville [later Eclipse] club went on to play two more matches in the fall of 1867, defeating the 'Agrestic' Club of Farmington and . . ."

Farmington is a northern suburb of Detroit. "Agrestic" apparently means rural/rustic/unpolished.

Sources

http://eclipsebcc.com